Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops after paddy in India, and India is the second largest producer of wheat in the world. This fact itself explains that how farmers are dependent on the wheat crop majorly. But growing good quality wheat is not that easy. There are various factors on which a crop quality is dependent, like: weather, soil fertility, rain, etc. All these factors are very crucial for good quality crop production and pest control is one of them.
So, here are some of the common pest and their control method for wheat, which farmers can easily implement on their field:
Termites: They mainly damage the crop immediately after sowing or at the time of maturity. The symptoms are immediately complete drying of plants and can pull out easily. The plants which get damaged in later stage will give rise to white ears.
Treatment: Before sowing treat the seeds with Durban/Ruban/Durmet 20 EC (chlorpyriphos) @ 4 ml in 1 litre of water per kg of seed or Regent 5% SC (Fipronil)@6 ml in 1 litre of water per kg of seed.
Aphids: It damages the crop which will result in discoloration of leaves.
Treatment: Spraying of imidacloprid 17.8 @ 40 ml per acre in 80-100 litres of water or thiamethoxam @ 20 gram per acre in 80-100 litres of water or clothianidin@ 12 gram per acre in 80-100 litres of water or dimethoate @ 150 ml per acre in 80-100 litres of water should be done.
Army worm: It attacks mainly in March-April month. It mainly damages the leaves and earheads.
Treatment: Spraying of dichlorvos@ 200 ml in 80-100 litres of water per acre or quinalphos @ 400 ml in 80-100 litres of water per acre should be done to get rid from army worm.
Gram pod borer: It mainly damages the crop at maturity. They damage the wheat by feeding themselves on the earheads.
Treatment: Spraying of quinalphos @ 800 ml in 100 litres of water per acre should be done with the help of hand operated knap sack sprayer.
Pink stem borer: It mainly attacks the crop at seedling stage. The larva bore into the stem of the young plant and it destroys the central shoot causing dead heart.
Treatment: Spraying of quinalphos@ 800 ml per acre in 100 litres of water should be done to prevent from pink stem borer.
Brown mite: It is a minor insect which causes discoloration in crop.
Treatment: Spraying of imidacloprid@ 17.8 SL@ 40 ml per acre in 80-100 litres of water or thiamethoxam @20 gram per acre in 80-100 litres of water or clothianidin@12 gram per acre in 80-100 litres of water or dimethoate@150 ml per acre in 80-100 litres of water should be done.
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