Pest category

IPM Schedule or Control Measures

For Organic Crop Production

For Seed Potato Production

Sucking pests

1). Use of healthy or virus free seed material from a reliable source

-do-

2). Monitoring and mass trapping with yellow sticky traps (aphids and white flies)

-do-

3). Timely rouging of virus infected and volunteer plants, and also avoid growing yellow flowering plants in the vicinity especially crop raised for seed.

Timely rouging of virus infected plants having 2 or more aphids per plant and give insecticidal sprays of

Methyl demeton (Metasystox 25EC) @1.2ml/lit water

or

Imidacloprid (Confidor 17.8 SL) @ 2gm/5 lit water concentration (against aphids, white flies and thrips).

or

Phorate (Thimate 10G) @10kg/ha

or

Acetamiprid (Pride 20% SLR) @ 250g/ha or 2gm/5 lit of water (aphids, whiteflies)

4). Spray of cattle urine (1ltr) + neem mixture (CUNM), with water in 1 (CUNM): 9 (water) ratio.

Haulm cutting at aphid population approaching 20/100 compound leaves

Defoliators

1). Deep ploughing during summer.

-do-

2). Clipping of leaves with egg masses.

-do-

3). Handpicking and destruction of larvae and grubs.

-do-

4). Installation of light (1 trap per km distance in the hills and 1 trap per hectares in plains) or pheromone traps (5/traps/ha) to attract and kill the adult beetles and moths.

-do-

5). Spray of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) @3gm/lit of water

or

Spray NSKE@ 2ml/litre of water (weekly spray).

Spray Carbaryl (Sevin 50WP) @2gm/lit of water

or

Dichlorvos 78EC @ 1ml/lit of water (against grubs and beetles)

or

Cypermethrin 25EC @ 30ml/100 lit of water (against catepillars)

or

Deltamethrin 28EC @ 1ml/10 lit of water (against caterpillars)

Pest category

IPM Schedule or Control Measures

For Organic Crop Production

For Seed Potato Production

Soil pests

1) Deep ploughing before planting and after crop harvesting to expose immature stages for predations by birds

-do-

2). Deep planting apprx.  8cm deep (against white grubs).

-do-

3). Application of well rotten FYM only.

-do-

4). Installation of light traps for mass trapping and killing the adults. @ 1 trap per hectare

-do-

5). Soil application of neem + cattle urine (5%) during emergence of seedling and tuber formation.

Application of Phorate 10G (10-20 kg/ha)

or

Carbofuran 3G (80-100 kg/ha) near plant base at the time of earthing up

or

Drenching of ridges with Chlorpyriphos (Dursban 20 EC) @ 2.5ml/lit of water at 20-25 days interval

6). Soil application of Beauvaria bassiana (Larvocel), or Metarrhizium anisoplae 5gm/lit of water=0.5% conc. (white grubs, cutworms)

 7). Application of cattle urine extracts of botanicals like Melia spp., Urtica dioeca, Nerium indicum, Eucalyptus spp. etc. @5 % well in time (during sowing, earthing up and tuber formation stage).

PTM

1). Clean the store before tuber storage

-do-

2). Treat tubers with Bt @ 0.05% or GV (1kg talc + 20 GV infected PTM larvae + 2ml sticker + 1 lit water mixed and dried) then apply @ 500 gm/bag

-do-

3). Pheromone trap @ 4 traps/100 m³ of storage space and @20 traps/ha in endemic areas for mass trapping

-do-

4). Cover the stored potatoes with powdered Lantana/Eucalyptus/Neem leaves

-do-

6). Treat tubers before storage with CIPC @ 40ml/t of potatoes (ware or processing potato tubers)

Spray of Cypermethrin or Malathion dust @250gm/quintal of tubers

Nematodes

1). Deep phloughing

-do-

2).Intercropping of Tagetes erecta between 2-3 lines

-do-

3). Amendment of de-oiled cakes of neem, groundnut, sesamum, castor, mahua and karanj etc.

-do-

4). Planting resistant varieties like Kufri Suwarana, Kufri Neelima (against cyst nematode) and Hybrid HC-294  against RKN.

-do-

5). Application of biotic agents like Paecilomyces liliacinus Dactylaria, Aspergillius spp. Humicola grasea and Bacillus viz. NB-I and B-68

Application of Carbofuran @ 3 kg ai/ha or Aldicarb @ 2 kg ai/ha preferably in two equal splits i.e. half at planting and remaining half at earthing up.