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Role of Border and Barrier Crops for the Management of Important Chilli (Capsicum annuum L.) Pests.

Volume : 102
Issue: Jul-sep
Pages: 244 - 247
Published: April 30, 2023
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Abstract


Field experiments were conducted during kharif 2010-11 and 2011-12 at Agricultural Research Station, UAS, Dharwad, Karnataka, South India to assess the effect of border and barrier cropping for the management of chilli pests. Chilli as border and barrier crop with South African tall maize and sweet sorghum was found to be superior over sole crop by recording the lowest population of sucking pests, leaf curl index, larval population of H. armigera, fruit damage and significantly higher growth parameters as well as dry chili yield (3.95 and 3.89q/ha) with a net return of Rs 19,528/- and CB ratio 1 2.56. Activity of predators such as coccinellids and chrysopids were found to be greatly distributed in plots having border and barrier crops.

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244 - 247
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

Keywords


Border and Barrier cropping Fruit borer damage Helicoverpa armigera Leaf curl index Predators Sucking pests
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