KVK, Palem organized training cum awareness programme on Pink bollworm management on 08-09-2020

Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Palem has been organized training cum awareness programme on Pink bollworm management in Bt-Cotton at Yaddireddipalli village of Tadoor mandal on 08.09.2020. In this programme Dr. T. Prabhakar Reddy, PC, KVK, Palem given brief introduction about the present crop condition of Cotton. Mr. M. Rajashekhar, SMS-PP explained about the how to install the pheromone traps in the farmers filed and emphasized on pheromone traps helps for monitoring the incidence of Pink bollworm in Cotton and reduce the usage of harmful pesticides. Right now crop is at flowering to boll formation stage, at this stage insisted farmers to take up the spraying with Azadiractin 1500ppm @ 5ml/L of water. If traps catches more than 8 adult moths three consecutive days recommended spraying with Thiodicarb @ 1.5g/lt of water. After that distributed 1000 pheromone traps to the farmers @ 6/each farmer. In this programme Mr. B. Rajashekar (SMS-Agril. Extension), Sri. Inna Reddy and total 18 farmers were participated.