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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