All India Coordinated Research Project on Vegetable Crops, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri-413 722, Dist. Ahmednagar (MS), India
Online published on 10 October, 2018.
The field trials were carried out during kharif 2015 to evaluate different pest management strategies against thrips, Scirtothrips dorsalis and mites, Polyphagotarsonemus latus on chilli. During the course of study, three pest management strategies viz., Bio-intensive IPM and chemical control strategies consisting spraying of different pesticides as well as bio-pesticides were evaluated with untreated control. The studies on evaluation of pest management strategies against thrips revealed that IPM strategy was found to be most effective and recorded least (1.74 mean surviving thrips/3 leaves/plant) thrip population, followed by chemical control strategy. While, in case of mites, the chemical control strategy was observed superior to rest of the treatments and recorded 7.17 mean surviving mites population/three leaves/plant. It was, however, at par with IPM and observed 7.31 mites/plant. The highest yield of green chilli was registered from the plots of IPM (14.01 t/ha) with ICBR 1: 11.21.
Capsicum annuum, Management strategies, Polyphagotarsonemus latus, Scirtothrips dorsalis.
