Status of insect pests and natural enemies in organic mango orchard
Research Type
Departmental Research
Experiment Background
In India, key challenges for mango production are insect pests and diseases. The major insect pests of mango include hoppers, thrips, mealy bugs, gall midge, leaf webber, scale insects, stem borer and fruit fly (Reddy et al., 2018). Insect pest management is very important for the profitable cultivation of mango. Among the insect pest management methods, biological control play crucial role in checking the insect pests under detrimental levels by predators and parasitoids. Exploration of natural enemies in local or in the native region of the pest, or introduction of natural enemies from foreign countries and augmenting them for the pest management can be used as an effective strategy in biological control program (Barratt et al., 2018). The value of biological control often becomes evident when predators and parasitoids are disturbed by spraying of insecticides or weather aberrations (Messing and Brodeur, 2018). Decisions for pest spraying should be carefully weighed against the possible effects on predators and parasitoids. These decisions require a better understanding of the complex of natural enemies and the relative abundance of natural enemies.
Experiment Group
Plant Protection
Unit Type
(02)EDUCATION UNIT
Unit
(13)ASPEE COLLEGE OF HORTICULTURE (NAVSARI)
Department
(220)Plant Protection, ACHF, Navsari
BudgetHead
(329/12237/00)329/03/REG/01815
Objective
To know presence of insect pests andnatural enemies in mango orchard