Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Plant hoppers are the major yield limiting factor faced by the farmers of Eastern Vidarbha zone of Maharashtra who failed to achieve the control of hoppers with the conventional insecticides which paves the way to introduce the new methods of management practices for the plant hoppers in rice.Therefore alleyways in rice crop and its effect on incidence of plant hoppers are studied at different location as ield experimenti.Multi location ield trial on effect of alley ways on hoppers incidence in rice crop in randomized block design with ive replications of four treatments viz.,T1:Alleyways of 30 cm after every 10 rows or 2 m in rice crop, T2: 2 Chemical sprays at 15 days interval (Flonicamid 50 % WG @ 3 g/10 Liter water at 60 DAT and Fipronil 5% SC @ 20 ml/10 Liter water at 75 DAT), T3:T1 + T2 and T4: Untreated control at Agriculture Research Station, Sakoli, Dist.Bhandara and Zonal Agriculture Research Station, Sindewahi, Dist.Chandrapur during kharif 2019 and kharif 2020.The results revealed that treatment with alleyways of 30 cm after every 10 rows or 2 m in rice crop + 2 Chemical sprays viz., Flonicamid 50 % WG @ 3 g/10liter water at 60 DAT and Fipronil 5% SC @ 20 ml/10 liter water at 75 DAT was found effective for management of hoppers and getting higher grain yield of rice crop and higher monetary return.
Institution: Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth
Language: English
Subfield: Insect Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4407029980