Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
UA Pawar, RV Datkhile, SR Kulkarni, YS Saindane, SV Pawar and CA Nimbalkar

Abstract:
A survey was conducted in the Ahmednagar, Pune, Solapur, Sangli and Nashik districts of Western Maharashtra to study the grape grower’s knowledge about pest management during January 2020 to March 2020. As regard awareness and grape grower’s outlook survey revealed that 88.66% growers knew severity of insect pest problems in grape, only 19.33% growers were aware about the natural enemies and 59.33% know about bio-pesticides usage. While the awareness percentage for the usage of recommended pesticides in grapes was very less and accounted just for 12%. 27.33% growers were followed the safe waiting periods. 68.00% of growers were well aware of the ill effects of pesticides. 24% of grape growers were found using mobile applications to collect information on pest management.