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LEAF CURL He said that this serious pest when crop is in initial stage. This pest is
locally known as Gurcha. He sprayed Tataphen (50 ml/20 lit.) + Dithen M-45 (10 g/20
lit.) + Bavistin (10 g/20 lit.) + Curacron (20 ml/20 lit.) after one week interval.
FRUIT FLY July sown crop suffers more from fruit fly than the October crop. For
controlling fruit flies he did not use any separate insecticide but he sprays
Curacron + Karate + Cypermethrin + growth regulator 150 ml/15 litre at 3 days
interval. For the first time he started taking advice from a pesticide shopkeeper of
Varanasi town.
#V008 06/02/04 TEAM: SR, SS, SPS. Village: Ahi. He has farm area of about 4.5 bigha
and he has to feed 20 family members. The farm family is not doing any other job
outside farm.
CROPS He said that he is growing bitter gourd, chilli and okra.
BITTER GOURD He said that he is growing this crop since 5 years. He adopted by seeing
the neighbour crops. He felt bitter gourd is remunerative in local market. He has
sown the crop in June. He got fruit from August to December. He sown only local
variety.
BITTER GOURD PESTS He experienced that the kharif crop suffers most from leaf curl,
jassid and leaf folder/fruit borer (Diaphania indica). The farmer didn't have
knowledge about fruitfly as a pest and its infestation.
LEAF CURL He said that this serious pest when crop is in initial stage. This pest is
locally known as Gurcha. He sprayed Phankil (100 ml/50 lit.) + Dithen M-45 (100 g/50
lit.) + Biomagic (20 ml/20 lit.) after one week interval.
FRUIT FLY July sown crop suffers more from fruit fly than the October crop. For
controlling fruit flies he did not use any separate insecticide but he sprays Phankil
(100 ml/50 lit.) + Dithen M-45 (100 g/50 lit.) + Biomagic (20 ml/20 lit.) at 3 days
interval. For the first time he started taking advice from a pesticide shopkeeper of
Varanasi town.
#V008 14/05/05 TEAM: SR, SS, SPS, JMS. {Evaluation of village-level wide-area
experiment.}
WIDE-AREA CONTROL The control worked but the villagers were not very enthusiastic.
Perhaps a factor was that gourds are only a smallish percentage of the total surface
area of the village.
@~L - LUCKNOW {Survey was conducted in three fruit belts viz. Lucknow- Barabanki
-Faizabad (mango) and Kanpur (guava-beside-cucurbits). Survey conducted during
different parts of the year 2003 covered ten orchards having area large, medium and
small farmers. Mango is the major crop in the land holdings. Vegetable (cucurbits),
mustard, pea, gram and fodder also grown in the area which other wise generally used
as a passage or remains fallow.}
#L001 DATE: 26/07/03 TEAM: RPS/AM. Village: Gulabkhera. Status: Large/Wealthy Farmer.
I only own farm total area five ha. Five members of my family depend on this land and
I have no other job outside farming.
CROPS Mango is the main crop. Mustard is also grown in fallow land during winter.
Mango is being grown for the last three decades mainly because it is in the periphery
of fruit belt. Initially crop performed quite satisfactory. It gives high return if
market price is good.
PEST 1 - MANGO HOPPER is the main pest. Its attack started at the time of panicle
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