1All India Coordinated Research Project on Sesame and Niger, College of Agriculture, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
Department of Agricultural Entomology, Chandra Sekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur, India
*Corresponding author E-mail: pandeyjnkvv@gmail.com
Online published on 30 April, 2015.
The average data of two years field experimentation showed that the spray of ethion 40% + cypermethrin 5% recorded minimum fruit damage (2.47%) followed by profenophos 50 EC (5.57%) and profenophos 40% + cypermethrin 4% (7.11%). The control plot exhibited maximum fruit damage (44.50%) followed by neemarin (13.92%) and endosulfan (9.04%). The application of ethion 40% + cypermethrin 5% recorded the minimum fruit weight loss (1.44%) followed by profenophos (2.81%). The untreated control recorded the maximum fruit weight loss (33.13%). The interaction between different treatments and periods of observation significantly influenced the fruit damage.
Insecticides, bitter gourd, fruit fly
