Hi
I will give both fertiliser schedule and crop protection schedule. Go through the following
A. FRUIT BORERS
1. Anar butterfly Deudorix (Virachola) isocrates
Symptoms of damage
Caterpillar bores into young fruits
Feeds on internal contents (pulp and seeds)
Fruit rotting and dropping
Identification of the pest:
Larvae - dark brown, short and stout, covered with short hairs
Adult - bluish brown butterfly
Female – V shaped patch on forewing
Management
Collect and destroy damaged fruits
Clean cultivation as weed plants serve as alternate hosts
Endemic areas - grow less susceptible varieties
Adopt ETL (5 eggs/plant)
Cover the fruit with polythene bags when the fruits are up to 5 cm
Use light trap @ 1/ ha to monitor the activity of adults
Insecticides: malathion 50 EC 0.1% or dimethoate 30 EC 0.06%, two rounds, one at flower formation and next at fruit set.
Flowering stage - spray NSKE 5% or neem formulations 2 ml/1
Apply dimethoate 30 EC 1.5 ml/1.
Release Trichogramma chilonis at one lakh/acre.
Bacterial leaf and nodal blight. (Xanthomonas axonopodis pv punicae)
Select disease free planting
material
Spray Bordeaux mixture (1.0%)
Spray with Streptocycline (0.025%) in combination with Copper oxychloride (0.25%) or Carbendazim (0.15%) at 15 days interval for 5-6 times starting from leaf initiation stage.
If possible, cut ends should be pasted with Bordeaux (10%) paste.
Follow orchard sanitation measures strictly. Fallen twigs, leaves and Fruits should be destroyed outside the orchard premises. Copper formulations + Streptocycline or Carbendazim +
Streptocycline 0.05% and other bactericides if disease pressure is high and weather conditions are favourable .
Regards
Harish
