Integrated pest management of cardamom
Cultural
- Destroy rhizomes infested with immature stages of the weevil
- Avoid planting banana inside the cardamom plantation and destroy host plant like Colocasia and Alocasia to control aphid infestation
- Cultivar Malabar variety, resistant to thrips. The hybrid Vazhukla is moderately resistant
Biological
- Field release of parasitoids Xanthopimpla australicus , pupal parasite of shoot borer
- Beauveria sp (white fungus) on hairy caterpillar
- Verticillium entertextum (Fungus) on aphids