Training programme on Pink bollworm management at adopted village, Damera on 02-11-2021
Village adoption team of Agricultural College, Warangal organized training programme on “Pink boll worm management in Cotton” on 02-11-2021 at adopted village, Damera. During the programme, Dr. Ch. Anusha, Asst. Prof (Entomology) explained about IPM practices and farmers were advised to install pheromone traps @ 4/acre in cotton for monitoring of pink bollworm. If each trap catch is more than 5-8 adult moths for three consecutive days, farmers were recommended to spray insecticides like Emamectin benzoate @ 0.5g/lit or Indoxacarb @ 1.0 ml/lit or Spinosad @ 0.4ml/lit or Spinetoram @ 0.9ml/lit. Also distributed pamphlets about IPM practices for control of pink boll worm in cotton. After that, interacted with farmers and clarified their doubts about pest and disease management in different crops and suggested crops to be grown after cotton crop during Jan – Feb. Dr. G. Santhosh Kumar, Dr. G. Swathi and Dr. Ch. Anusha and 15 farmers participated in the programme.
