National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Cashew is influenced by many of the pest out of which cashew apple and nut borer is one of the most important pest which causes economic losses, by considering the importance of this pest a field experiment was conducted at Agriculture and Horticulture research station Ullala, Mangalore during the year 2021-22 to find out the best insecticides for the management of apple and nut borer in cashew, the study recorded that the treatment Chlorantraniliprole @ 0.3 ml/L found one of the best and effective insecticide against cashew apple and nut borer and second best insecticide was Flubendiamide @ 0.3 ml/L at 7 and 14 days after spray. Treatments like Beauveria bassiana @ 5g/L, Metarhizium anisopliae @ 5g/L and Azadirachtin 1 E.C (10,000 ppm) were on par each other and control recorded highest infestation in the present study. The response of these insecticides was also observed on the yield, with the highest nut yield of 24.48 q/ha and the cost-benefit ratio of 1:3.26 was recorded in Chlorantraniliprole @ 0.3 ml/L.
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