Food Protectants and Infestation Control Department, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore-570 013, India.
Online published on 31 October, 2011.
Phosphine fumigation trials have been conducted on bag-stacks of wheat, ranging from 146 to 149 tonnes, inside godown and in open storage in Punjab, India, with the aim of determining effective dosage/concentrations for control of phosphine-resistant insects. The average daily gas loss rate in indoor stacks ranged from 6–10% in door stacks on plinth 13–17% and for the stacks on plain soil the range was 21–29 per cent.
Fumigation, phosphine, wheat, bag-stacks, insect control
