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Golden Apple Snails
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Symptoms | |
Nature of damage
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Missing hills in transplanted paddy | |
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Presence of snails in field | |
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Identification of pest | |
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golden Apple snail | |
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snail egg | |
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Management Strategies | ||
Mechanical Control
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Hand pick and crush the snail egg | ||
Collect and kill by mechanical action | ||
Cultural methods
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Off season tillage to crush snails | ||
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Draining the field | ||
Chemical methods Molluscicides such as metaldehyde is recommended. |
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Molluscicide-metaldehyde | ||
Biological methods
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Snake eating snail | ||
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