White grub management for Sugarcane, Ginger, Turmeric, Soyabean etc

Dear farmers,

White grub nowadays is causing very damage in the yield production of sugarcane, ginger, termeric, groundnut, pigeon pea, soyabean etc.

It is a white colour grub with dark brown mouth and a 'C' shaped body. The adult beetles are dark brown in colour. They emerge out in the month of May or the first rain and feed on neem (Azadirachta indica), babool (Vachellia nilotica) and ber trees.

Management of white grub

Light trap is the most efficient for the control of 

white grub. One can easily make cheapest light trap at home. This light trap is hanged in the farm facing towards the neem tree and babool tree. Dig a 2 feet × 2 feet pond of 0.5 to 1 feet depth below the light trap. Cover it by polythene sheet and  pour water in it upto a height of 4 to 8 inches. Mix some amount(100ml-200ml) of kerosene in the water to reduce surface tension of the water. So some of the Beetles attracted by light trap would died due to the heat produced by light trap and remaining food die by falling in the pond and sinking into it.

How to make a light trap at home

1) Take an empty iron box and cut or open it from one side. Apply yellow colour to both inner and outer sides. Fit a 1000 watt halogen tube light inner to it.

Note: Insulate the wires properly due to high heat produced by the light.

2) In other method one can simply hang a halogen light(not tubelight) under or near the trees and simply make same pond below it.

For long term control

A. Biological control

    Use Metarhizium anisopliae(1lit)+ Beauveria bassiana(1lit) mix in 200 to 250 lit of water and drench it for an acre.

For less duration crop

A. If drenching is possible

     Use Chlorpyriphos 2lit in 200 to 250 lit water and drench in the soil at the bottom of crop for one acre

B. If drenching isn't possible 

     Use Cartap hydrochloride 3-4 kg + Jowar flour 3-4 kg mixture  is spread manually by hands in the field for one acre.

   

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