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.