1Department of Chemistry and Physics, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004, Haryana, India
2Department of Entomology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004, Haryana, India
*Corresponding author E-mail: beena@hau.ernet.in
Online published on 27 June, 2014.
Dissipation behaviour of thiamethoxam applied at recommended dose of 25 g a.i ha−1 at fruiting stage of okra showed that the initial deposits of 0.245 mg kg−1 reached below detectable level of 0.005 mg kg−1 at 15 days after application with a half life period of 1.47 days.
Thiamethoxam, persistence, okra, residues, half-life
