1)Field sanitation to destroy alternate hosts
2)Select uninfested plantingmaterial.
3) Cultural methods like earthing up, providing irrigation, crop rotation etc.
4)Spraying the crop at monthly intervals with 0.05 % of fenitrothion or fenthion ormonocrotophos is effective. orSoil drenching withfenthion, endosulfan, quinalphos, monocrotophos and fenitrothion 0.05 % at 50 & 70 DAP. |