Integrated pest management of s weet potato weevil
1.Select weevil free healthy planting material.
2.Remove and burn alternate hosts.
3.Dip the planting material in 0.05% fenthion or fenithrothion or monocrotophos , for 10minutes.
4.Reridge the crop at 30&60 DAP.
5.Install the sex pheromone trap @one trap/100sq.m for mass trapping themales.
6.Harvest at 105-110 days.
7.Destroy the crop residues by burning.