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Pest Management in Crops and Stored Grains
B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture • Semester 5 • ENT 311
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Theory Lecture Schedule
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Theory Lecture Schedule
22 indexed topics01
Concept of IPM, Practices, scope and limitations of IPM.
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Classification of insecticides, toxicity of insecticides and formulations of insecticides.
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Biorational pesticides including insect repellents, antifeedants, Use of drones and AI in pest management.
04
Polyphagous insect pests: Locust, grasshopper, white grub, termite and red hairy caterpillar
05
Pests of Field crops—Rice: Brown plant hopper, yellow stem borer, gundhi bug.
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Sorghum: Shootfly; Maize: Stem borer.
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Sugarcane: Pyrilla, whitefly, shoot borer.
08
Pulses: Gram pod borer, cutworm. Tobacco: Tobacco caterpillar
09
Oilseeds: Mustard aphid, sawfly, painted bug, soybean girdle beetle, castor semilooper, castor capsule borer, sesame leaf and capsule borer.
10
Cotton: Jassid, whitefly, spotted and pink bollworm, red cotton bug, mealy bug. 1 Pests of Vegetables crops: Brinjal- brinjal shoot and fruit borer; 2 Tomato- Fruit borer (Covered in gram); Okra- Shoot and fruit borer (Covered in cotton). Potato: Tuber moth. Pea: Stem fly. Chilli: Thrips; Onion and garlic: Thrips.
12
Cruciferous vegetables: Cabbage caterpillar, diamondback moth, semilooper, tobacco caterpillar (Covered in tobacco).
13
Cucurbitaceous vegetables: Melon fruit fly, red pumpkin beetle, red vegetable mite.
14
Pests of Fruit crops: Mango: Mango hopper, mealy bug, stem borer, fruit fly; Guava: Fruit fly.
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Citrus: Citrus psylla, citrus caterpillar, bark eating caterpillar.
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Pomegranate: Anar butterfly; Ber: Fruit fly.
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Coconut: Black headed caterpillar; Apple: San Jose scale, woolly aphid.
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Pests of Ornamental Crops: Rose aphid, hollyhock tinged bug, jasmine budworm.
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Pests of Spices and condiments: Aphid, seed midge
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Invasive insect pests: Fall army worm, Tomato leaf miner
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Pests of stored grains and their management: Khapra beetle, lesser grain borer, rice weevil, red rust flour beetle, pulse beetle, Angoumois grain moth.
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Storage structures and methods of grain storage.
23
Rodents and their management.
Practical Lecture Schedule
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Practical Lecture Schedule
8 indexed topics01
Field visit, identification of major insect pests and their damage symptoms
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Collection and preservation of major insect pests i
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Collection of damage samples, their identification and herbarium preparation
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Methods of monitoring of pest incidence in situ
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Management strategies of insect pests of different crops
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Storage structures and methods of grain storage
07
Spraying techniques for selected field and horticultural crops
08
Mass multiplication of NPV and entomopathogenic nematodes.
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