Department of Agricultural Entomology, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Madurai - 625 002, Tamil Nadu, India.
A field experiment was conducted in farmer's holding at Vinayagapuram village of Melur Taluk, of Madurai District, Tamil Nadu to adopt various eco-friendly measures to control spotted beetle damage in Brinjal. In that experiment, Farm Yard Manure (FYM), Biofertilizers, Poultry manure, Neem cake and Mahua Cake were used as organic sources of nutrients for the management of beetle damage in brinjal. From the study conducted the treatment involving FYM + biofertilizers + neem cake recorded high per cent reduction of beetle infestation over NPK as inorganic form. Next to this was FYM + biofertilizers + mahua cake treatment. The highest fruit yield of (16.65 t/ha) was also noticed in the promising treatment.
