National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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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 |
Blackgram seeds are highly vulnerable to pulses beetle (Callosobruchus chinensis) due to its proteinases nature and rapidly affect its quality during storage. Pre-storage seed treatment with insecticides and plant derivatives can effectively utilized for management of this storage pest. In spite of effectiveness of several insecticides in seed storage, the indiscriminate uses of insecticides imparting more residual toxicity which in turn it affects the non-targeted animals including human being besides affecting quality of seeds. An integrated/ organic protection approach is highly warranted to develop resistance against pulse beetle and it’s highly welcomed by the researcher/ organic lover. Hence, an attempt was made to ascertain effectiveness of bio-pesticides or plant derivatives for maintaining the storability of blackgram seeds. Hence, a laboratory experiment was laid out Completely Randomized Design (CRD) under ambient condition for 12 months storage period with plant derivatives viz., plant (neem, castor, mustard, mahua and olive) oil @ 5 ml/kg, plant powders @ 10 g/kg (turmeric rhizome powder, notchi leaf powder, soapnut seed powder, neem leaf powder, mehendhi leaf powder), wood ash powder (@ 5 g/kg) and neem seed kernel powder (5 g/kg) each separately. Seed quality parameters were observed periodically once at three months interval upto 12 months. The results revealed that blackgram seeds treated with neem oil @ 5 ml / kg of seed have retained better seed quality parameters of 76 percent germination with minimum bruchid infestation (20.6%) at twelve months of storage period.
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