Period/ crop stage

Target pest

Management schedule recommended

Pre- planting

White grub, termites

· Deep summer ploughing, avoiding monocropping system and destruction of all the crop stubbles.

Selection of seed crop

Mealy bug, scale insect and borers

• Take seed materials from healthy crop.

Selection of seed sets

As above

• Do not use borer infested sets for planting.

Seed treatments

As above and white grub

• Deep the sets for 15 minutes with chlorpyriphos 20EC @5ml/liter of water

At planting

Termite, white grub, root and shoot borer

· Apply chlorpyriphos 20 EC @5 L/ha over cane sets in furrows with 1000 litre of water.

At shoot stage (pre-monsoon)

At cane stage (monsoon & post monsoon)

At harvest

Shoot, top, plassey and root borers

Top borer

Plassey borer

Leaf hopper

Black bug

Scale insect

White grub

Internode borer

Stalk borer

Gurdaspur borer

Mealy bug

Leaf hopper

Scale insect

whitefly

Woolly aphids

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· Collect and destroy egg masses, remove and destroy infested shoots from just below ground level.

• Provide need based irrigation and trash mulching. Release Sturmiopsis inference @125 gravid female/ ha in tropics.
• Soil application of cartap hydrochloride 4G @25 kg/ha during upto 1 ^st week of June with earthing up followed by irrigation, if needed.
• Resease of laboratory bred Isotoma javensis. Removing water shoots.

· Mechanical collection of infested plants and destroy from outside of the field.

· Do not transport infested plants.

· Monitoring of crop at frequent interval. During severe incidence light trap should be installed.

· During April-May, detrash the two lower most leaves with egg masses and destroy them.

• Release Epiricania melanoleuca @5000 coccons or 4 to 5 lakh eggs/ha.

· Spray chlorpyriphos 20EC@ 2.5 l/ha in crop having no population of Epiricania melanoleuca.

• Burn trash leaves after harvest.

· Apply quinolphos @ 2 l/ha when black bug appears and repeat sprays if needed.

· Detrash the crop. Apply imidacloprid @ 100 ml/ha or cartap hydrochloride @ 1 kg/litre of water to the crop.

· Use light trap to collect adult beetles and destroy them. Collect and destroy the adult beetles from feeding trees immediately after first heavy summer rain.

• Detrash the crop at monthly interval. Release Trichogramma chilonis @ 5000 eggs /ha at 10 days interval in tropical India based on intensity of the pest.
• Detrashing of cane stalk. Release Trichogramma chilonis as above.
• Propping must be done to avoid falling of canes.
• Collect and infested tops.
• Release Trichogramma chilonis as above.

· Detrashing of cane stalk. Spray the crop with imidacloprid 17.8SL at 500 ml/ha one month interval till appearance of the pest.

· Same practice may be adopted as mentioned under pre monsoon period.

• Same as mentioned under pre monsoon period.

· Spray the crop either with imidacloprid 17.8SL at 500 ml/ha after detrashing. Aoid water logged condition in the cane field and no rationing in low drying areas.

• Release of parasitoids like Dipha aphidivora & Micromus sp. Spraying of dimethiate, when parasitoids are not present.
• Cane cutting from ground level.
• Removing late and water shoots.
• Burn trash immediately after harvesting.