Author: Sewa Bharati

Irrigation should be given in this week. Mealy Bug: Symptoms: Newly emerged nymphs are quite active with a pinkish transparent body. Adults are white with mealy coating, sessile. Pinkish oval insects beneath leaf sheath on the nodes, with whitish mealy coating, main cane stunned also attack roots. Sooty mold develops on the honey dew giving…

Irrigation should be given in this week. Grassy Shoot Disease: Symptoms: The disease is characterized by the production of numerous lanky tillers from the base of the affected shoots. Leaves become pale yellow to completely chlorotic, thin and narrow. The plants appear bushy and ‘grass-like’ due to reduction in the length of internodes, premature and…

Red Striped Disease: Symptoms: The disease first makes its appearance on the basal part of the young leaves. The stripes appear as water soaked, long, narrow chlorotic streaks and become reddish brown in a few days. The core is discolored to reddish brown and shriveled and forms a cavity in the center. In badly affected…

In fourteenth week we should give nitrogen @ 40-45 kg/acre. After giving the fertilizer to the crop then Irrigation to be done. Root Grub:  Symptoms: Grubs are fleshy “C” shaped, whitish yellow in color found close to the base of the clump. Adult beetles are a rusty-red color just after emerging from the pupal stage,…

Wooly Aphid: Symptoms: Nymphs produced by late females are relatively active, have long, elliptical bodies and are pale greenish white in color. The apterous adult female is 1.78 mm long and 1.07mm wide with a very soft, broad, laterally depressed body which is densely covered by white, cotton-like secretions. The attack generally begins in the…

Irrigation should be given in the ninth week. Top Borer:  Symptoms: Larvae are Smooth, white or cream colored with a red colored mid – dorsal line and yellow head. White colored moth (with a buff orange colored anal tuft of hairs in female). Parallel rows of short holes in the emerging leaves causes a white…

Manual hoeing is also practiced during this interval. Root Borer: Symptoms: Fully grown caterpillars are white in color, relatively active and measure 2-5 cm in length. The full grown larvae are white color. In grownup canes the damage symptom is visible in the form of yellowing of leaves. The canes need to be uprooted to…

Lifesaving irrigation should be done this week. Before the irrigation apply 40-45 kg/acre of nitrogen. Early Shoot Borer: Symptoms: Larva is dirty white with five dark violet longitudinal stripes and dark brown head. Pale grayish brown moth with black dots near the coastal margin of the forewings and with white hind wings. Dead heart in…