Table: Integrated management schedule for sugarcane pests
Crop stage / period
Target insect pest
Control measures
Selection of seed crop
Borers, mealy bug and scale insect
Seed material should preferably be taken from a healthy crop. No seed should be taken from a crop having pest incidence above 20 per cent
Selection of seed pieces
Borers, mealy bug and scale insect
Borer infested seed setts should not be used for planting
Pre-planting (seed treatment )
Borers, mealy bug and scale insect
Heat therapy followed by dipping setts in Aretan/Agallol (0.1% solution.)
Scale insect and mealy bug
Rubbing of setts with gunny bag pieces dipped in Malathion (0.1% solution.)
Scale insect and mealy bug
Dipping setts in Malathion (0.1%) or Dimethoate (0.06% solution.) for 15 min.
White grubs
Two to three extra ploughing to expose white grubs for predation in endemic areas.
At planting
Termites and shoot borers
Application of Endosulphan @ 1 kg a.i./ha over the cane setts in 1600 to 1800 litres of water
Pre-monsoon (March-June)
Shoot, root and top borers
Removal of egg-masses and infested shoots from the ground level. Copious irrigation and trash mulching. Avoid irrigation at the peak period of top borer moth emergence during summer.
Shoot borer
Release of Sturmiopsis inferens @ 125 gravid females/ha. Spray granulosis virus of shoot borer at 107 inclusion bodies/ha in 500 litres of water/ ha (tropical India).
Top borer
(i.) Soil application of carbofuran 3 G@1.0 kg a.i. /ha or phorate 10G@ 3 kg a.i./ha against third brood (June last week or July first week) of the pest.
(ii.) Release of Isotima javensis Rohw against third and fourth broods of top borer.
Black bug
Whorl application of Endosulphan emulsion @ 1.0 kg a.i./ha or Endosulphan 5 G@12 kg/ha
Pyrilla
1. Removal and destruction of two lower most leaves bearing egg-masses during April/ May
2. Release of 4000-5000 cocoons and 4 to 5 lakhs eggs of Epiricania melanoleuca per hectare during July-August. Crop having no Epiricania population be sprayed with Endosulphan or monocroptophos @ 1.0 kg ai per hectare.
Scales and aphids
Spraying of the crop with 0.08 percent dimethoate or 1.0 percent Malathion after detrashing
White grubs
1. Collection of adult beetles through light trap
2. Picking of grubs manually from field.
3. Collection and destruction of adult beetles from host trees immediately after first heavy summer rains
Trips
Spraying the crop with demecron (0.1%)/ monocroptophos/ dimethoate (0.04%)
Mites
Spraying the crop with Kelthane (0.1%)/ chlorfenvin/ monocroptophos (0.4%)
Monsoon and Post-monsoon (July-January)
Internode borer
Field release of Trichogramma chilonis adults@ 50,000/ha or 3.5 cc. parasitized Corcoran eggs/ha at fortnightly intervals regularly from the start of borer activity until a month before harvest
Stalk borer, internode borer, pyrilla, scale insect, mealy bug, white flies
Detrashing the crop from August through October at monthly intervals
Pyrilla
Dusting with Malathion spray @ 0.1 per cent or Endosulfan@1.5 litres per hectare.
Scale insect
Malathion spray @ 0.1%.
White flies
1. Avoid rationing in low lying areas.
Spraying with monocroptophos solution @0.3 kg a.i./ha or Endosulphan @ 1.5 lit/ha.
Stalk borer
Two sprayings of monocroptophos @ 0.75 kg a.i./ha at monthly intervals during September and October after detrashing dry leaves.
Gurdaspur borer
Regular collection and destruction of infested tops from July till October.
At harvest
Application to most of the pests
- Harvesting the crop form the ground level.
- Removal of late and water shoots.
- Burning trash and left over dry canes. immediately after harvesting
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