Description

Crop Production:

PREPARATORY CULTIVATION

1. Preparatory Cultivation

• Plough 2 to 3 times to obtain a good tilth and form beds and channels .

2. Seed rate/Rooted slips requirement 

• 6-8 kg/ha or 40,000 Nos. of rooted slips/ha.

3. Spacing 

• 50 x 30 cm

4. Manures and fertilizers

• a.   Basal.
• b.   FYM – 5 tonnes/ha.
• c.   NPK- 25: 40: 20 kg/ha.

5. Other Managements

• Since it is a pasture grass, it grows with the rainfall received over seasons.

 

Crop Protection:

• Phadka Grasshopper : Hieroglyphus spp.
• Rice grasshoppers : Oxya sp
• Tobacco grasshopper : Attractomorpha crenulate

Symptoms

• Defoliation, clipped foliage .

Identification of insect pests

Eggs	:	Egg pod
Adult	:	Hieroglyphus nigropletus: Shiny greenish yellow with three black lines on head and thorax.
Oxya sp	:	Blackish brown stripe on lateral surface of the body.
Attractomorpha crenulate	:	Green pubescent, antenna light pink.

Management

• Deep ploughing and keep bird perches.
• Growing attractive green tall grass or lush green plants as border trap crop.
• Baits containing the protozoan Nosema locustae.