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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Cotton is a fibre and cashcrop. The present study on adoption of integrated pest management practices for control of pink bollworm by cotton growers with a sample size of 120 farmers selected from 10different villages of two talukas. In case of constraints all of the respondents expressed the major constraints such as lack of knowledge about use of trichocards (100%), non availability of good quality of pheromone traps at proper time (65.83%), lack of knowledge about selection of recommended variety with early medium maturity (52.50%), high wages rate (45.83%), lack of knowledge about spraying of Neem Seed Kernel Extract (43.33%), lack of knowledge about application of chloropyriphos 20 ml/10lit. / quinolphos 20ml/10lit / profenophos 20 ml/10 lit / thiodicarb 20 gm/10lit at initial stage of ETL (36.66%), labours are not available at proper time (35.83%), lack of knowledge about avoid mixing of agrochemicals (35.00%) and high cost of insecticide (33.33%), respectively.