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The Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare section of Thoothukudi has issued guidelines to support maize crops from autumn armyworm infestation.
It has advised farmers to marque usage of the scattered monsoon rainfall to plough the onshore deeply, which volition exposure the larvae and pupae contiguous successful the ungraded to sunlight and birds and destruct them. This besides prevents the moth from emerging from the pupae. It has further instructed farmers to use 250 kg of neem barroom pulverization per hectare, during the last ploughing to power larvae and emergence of big moths.
The guidelines besides stressed the request for due spacing portion sowing, which could marque the pest absorption easier. It further advised the farmers to spray 20 ml of neem lipid diluted successful 10 litres of h2o to forestall moths from laying eggs. It besides highlighted the inter-crop method with leguminous crops, preventing service worm infestation.
It besides urged the farmers to debar unrecommended pesticides and to spray biopesticides specified arsenic Metarhizium anisopliae, 4 kg per hectare and Trichogramma pretiosum successful maize fields 2 to 3 times astatine 1 week intervals.
