Agricultural Science Digest
Year : 2006, Volume : 26, Issue : 3
First page : ( 162) Last page : ( 165)
Print ISSN : 0253-150X.

Relative efficacy of selected insecticides against leafhopper, amrasca Bigutulla bigutulla ishida on tomato

Reddy N. Aswathanarayana¹, Kumar C.T. Ashok^1,2

¹Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Mudigere-577 132, Karnataka, India.

²Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, UAS, GKVK, Bangalore-560 065, India.

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted to test the efficacy of selected insecticides against leafhoppers in tomatos. The results indicate that the treatment combination of deltamethrin 0.028% + pongamia oil 0.1% gave an excellent control of jassids followed by deltamethrin 0.028%, methomyl 0.05% + NSKE 3%,methtomyl 0.05%, endosulfan 0.07% + NSKE 3% and endosulfan 0.07% respectively.

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