Gram(Chickpea) Pest Management
The major insect pest that attack chickpea is cut worm early after emergence and the pod borer during pod formation and maturity period. Now how can we manage them? While trying to reduce the pest attack on the crops, keep one thing in mind that we don't need to erradicate it completely from the field, we just need to manage it to a certain level so that it could not harm our crop to an extent that would reflect into our economic loss. Now for the purpose of management of these insect pests, first we need to understand them. Gram Cutworm The caterpillar stage of this worm causes damage to the young seedlings of the gram crop. The worms hide in the daytime under the soil or the crop debris and feed in the night. Symptoms and Damage Caused The stem of the young seedlings of crop are cut down about a few centimeters above ground. We can know the extent of presence of worm by stirring the soil around the infested plant upto 2.5cm depth. In case of severe infestation resowing o