Name of Pest /Diseases

Damaging Symptoms  

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 Management 

Fruit borer,

Helicoverpa armiger

1. Rotting and premature dropping of fruits
2. Fruits loose market value and unfit for consumption

1. Marigold (African tall) as trap crop @ 1:16 rows. Plant trap crop 20 days before planting of tomato
2. Release of egg parasitoid, Trichogramma chilonis @50,000/ week for six times
3. Spray NSKE @ 5% and spray HaNPV @ 250 LE/h
4. Spray carbary @ 4g/l  OR spinosad @ 0.1 ml/l  OR indoxacarb @ 0.3 ml/l

Early Blight of Tomato      

Small, isolated scattered, pale-brown spots appear on leaves.

Get seed from healthy source and treat them with Thiram-75 2.5gm/kg seed. Spray mancozeb (1gm/lit) and P. fluorescens (2gm/lit) as in the initial symptom appears or Hexacap (0.3%) at 8-10 days interval