Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar-751 003, Orissa, India
Field experiments were conducted to study the effect of plant nutrients on the incidence of YSB and grain yield of rice. It was observed that the incidence of borer was enhanced with application of increased doses of NPK fertilizers. But the supplementation of Zn (ZnSO4) with NPK nutrients recorded low incidence of borer both at vegetative (dead heart) and heading stage (white ear head).
Plant nutrients, Scirpophaga incertulas, incidence
