College of Agriculture, Kerala Agricultural University, Vellayani, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
*Present address: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture, Karaikal-609 607, Union Territory of Pondicherry
Online published on 31 October, 2011.
A field trial conducted to study the impact of different insecticides recommended for the control of pests of banana on different soil flora in the soil revealed that with HCH treatment, microbial population was low initially, but got restored later. With carbofuran, slight reduction of microbial population was observed immediately after its application and got restored before harvest. But, with phorate, a slight enhancement of the population of bacteria and fungi was observed after third application and it was restored at par with control before harvest of the crop.
Actinomycetes, bacteria, carbofuran, fungi, HCH, phorate
