Integrated pest management schedule for sugarcane ratoon crop
Crop stage
Pest covered
Control measures
At ratooning stage
Scale, mealy bugs, pyrilla, black bugs and army worms
Stubble shaving, burning of left over trashes.
March to June
Termites
Application of Endosulphan, @1.0 kg a.i. /ha through irrigation water.
Shoot borer, root borer and top borer
Collection and destruction of egg masses and infested shoots.
Scale and mealy bugs
Drenching the crop with 0.1% Malathion or 0.06% dimethoate after detrashing lower dry leaves at 4-5 internode state
Pyrilla
- Conservation of Epiricania melanoleuca cocoons in the area
- Dusting with BHC 10% in case the pest has migrated to other crop
Black bug
Drenching with Endosulphan /chloropyriphos /quinalphos@ 0.2 kg a.i./ha.
White fly
Fields prone to frequent water logging by sprayed with monocroptophos 0.3 kg. a.i./ha or Endosulphan 0.4 kg a.i./ha
June-July
Top borer
Soil application of carbofuran @1.0 kg a.i./ha or phorate @ 3.0 kg a.i./ha
July-August
White grub
1. Hand collection of adult beetles and grubs.
2. Soil application of HCH 10% dust @50 kg/ha twice at monthly intervals.
July-September
Gurdaspur borer
Collection and destruction of infested shoots, particularly of primary attack having gregarious stage of the larvae.
September- October
Stalk borer
- Detrashing of incessant leaves.
- Removal of late shoots at fortnightly intervals until harvest.
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