Integrated pest management practices

• Adopt synchronous and timely/early sowings of cultivars with similar maturity over large areas to reduce the damage by shoot fly, midge, and head bugs.

• Apply balanced fertilizers having adequate N and P to promote better plant growth, that results in reduced damage by shoot fly and stem borers.

Chemical Control of Cotton  Whitefly

• Apply fish oil + Teepol @ 3-3.5 litre + 500 ml/ha.

• Apply fish oil resin soap @ 1.4-1.5 kg/ha.

       Cultural Control of Cotton Whitefly

• Avoid late sowing and adopt crop rotation with crop which is not the host of whitefly wherever crop rotation is recommended.

Chemical Control of Cotton Thrips

Chemical Control of Spotted Bollworm in Cotton

• Use neem based insecticides like 5% neem seed kernel extract (NSKE) and commercial neem based formulations @ 500-600 ml/ha, starting from 45 days age of the crop.

     Mechanical Control of Spotted Bollworm in Cotton

• Collection and destruction of infested bolls.

• Collection and destruction of plant debris and trash before sowing.

      Cultural Control of Spotted Bollworm

• Plough deeply to expose resting pupae to hot sun.
• Avoid use of nitrogen fertilizers at the reproductive stage.

Chemical Control of Tobacco Caterpillar in Cotton

Chemical Control of Semilooper in Cotton

• Spray acephate 75 SP @ 1 g/l or Profenophos 50 EC @ 2 ml/l