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Crop : Sugarcane.

Field : Agril. Entomology.

Collaborator : Self.

Title : Study on the efficacy of some systemic insecticides in the control of root grubs. (Under the All India Coordinated Project on Sugarcane).

Author : R .S.Sachan, A.T. Yaragattikar,P,Y,Keskar , R.G.Menon and H.L.Kulkarny.

Year : 1976-77

An experiment was planted in a cultivators field in village Hallur to assess the efficiency of the following insecticides in the control of root Grubs. Holotrachia serrata which damage cane crops.

a) Phorate

b) Disyston

c) Solvirex

d) Sevin dust

e) B.H.C. Dust

f) Heptachlor

g) Neem Cake.

This experiment was assigned to Karnataka Institute of Applied Agricultural Research under the All India Coordinated Project on Sugarcane. The crops in the plot selected, was known to have been damaged by grubs, every year for the past three years. The plan of the experiment and the observations recorded so far are given in Table XIV.

Table XIV. Experiment Control of Root Grubs.

Field No. : Cultivator's plot in Hallur

 

Variety

: Co 419

   

Plot size : 14 M. x 4.5 M = 63 Sq.M.

         

Treatments :

1) Phorate @ 3 Kg a.i./ha

Replication: Four

   
   

2) Disyston, @ 3 Kg a.i./ha

        
   

3) Solvirex @ 3 Kg a.i./ha

Date of Planting : 7th March 1977.

    

4) Sevin dust @ 10.0 Kg a.i./ha

       
   

5) BHC dust @ 10 Kg a.i./ha

     
   

6) Heptachlor @ 10.0 Kg a.i./ha

   
    

7) Neem Cake @ 50 Kg/ha.

         
  

Grub Population

Treatment

30 days after Insecticides Application

60 days after Insecticides Application

No. of Plants

Total No. of Grubs

No. of Plants

Total No. of Grubs

 

damaged

on damaged Plants

damaged

on damaged Plants

Phorate

35

 

8

  

5

   

20

  

Disyston

41

 

9

   

6

   

23

 

Solvirex

47

 

11

  

7

   

25

  

Sevin dust

61

 

17

   

8

  

31

   

BHC dust

26

 

7

   

4

  

12

  

Heptachlor

29

 

8

   

3

    

11

   

Neem cake

40

 

12

  

7

    

21

   
Control

83

   

27

  19   67  

 

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