An overview of integrated management of Leucinodes orbonalis in brinjal crop in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

The present studies on the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for brinjal fruit and shoot borer (Leucinodes orbonalis) in the field trial was conducted at Banaras Hindu University at Vegetable Research Farm during 2011 and 2012. In strategy of IPM for the control of brinjal fruit and shoot borer (Leucinodes orbonalis) consists of resistant cultivar, sex pheromone, cultural, mechanical and biological control methods. Brinjal cultivars such as Krishna, Pusa anmol, Pusa purple cluster, Navkiran and Pusa purple long-74 possess appreciable levels of resistance to Leucinodes orbonalis. For the control of Leucinodes orbonalis the use of sex pheromone traps based on (E)-11-hexadecenyl acetate and (E)-11-hexadecen-1-ol to continuously trap the adult males significantly reduced the pest damage on brinjal. In addition, prompt destruction of pest damaged brinjal shoots and fruits at regular intervals and withholding of pesticide use to allow proliferation of local natural enemies especially the parasitoid, Trathala flavoorbitalis reduced the Leucinodes orbonalis population. The IPM strategy was profit margins and production area significantly increased whereas pesticide use and labor requirement decreased for those farmers, who adopted this IPM technology. The effort also made to expand the Leucinodes orbonalis is management with the help of production and management practices such as the remove the infected parts. © 2014, Plant Archives. All rights reserved.