Crop Protection — Ipm Blackgram
- Visual observation at weekly intervals at vegetative, flowering and poding stages for Heliothis.
- Use pheromone traps(5 traps/ha) for Heliothis monitoring.
- Deep ploughing of the field.
- Early sowing.
- Growing resistant /tolerant varieties.
- Timely irrigation
- Soil application of Phorate or Carbofuran granules @ 1.0 kg a.i. per ha
- Timely sowing, proper seed rate, irrigation and fertlizer management to have a desirable crop stand.
- Intercultural and hand weeding to keep to crop weed free initially for 4-6 weeks.
- Look for the plants infested with 1st/2nd instar larvae of hairy caterpilla, collect and destroy them.
- Light traps are very effective against hairy caterpillar.
