Diagnostic visit

visit is arecanut farm Inflorescence caterpillar: Tirathaba mundella Symptom of damage: Management: Paddy stemborer: Scirpophaga incertulasSymptom of damage:Presence of brown coloured egg mass near leaf tipCaterpillar bore into central shoot of paddy seedling and tiller, causes drying of the central shoot known as “dead heart”Grown up plant whole panicle becomes dried “white ear”Plants could be easily pulled by handManagement:ETL: 25% Dead …