Vol. 12, Special Issue 11 (2023)

Author(s):
Mahendra Kumar Chaturvedi, Eshant Kumar Sukdeve and Prashant Kumar Pandey

Abstract:
Some of the IPM Strategies that are used are Cultural practices (Summer ploughing, selection of healthy seeds, timely planting, raising of healthy nursery, removal of weed from field, balanced use of fertilizers as per recommendations are the important cultural practices that are followed for pest management in paddy); Mechanical practices (Mechanical practices comprise of removal and destruction of pest infested plant parts. The result on knowledge and adoption of insect pest management practices of latyrus of the study show that majority of respondents (68.75%) had knowledge about line showing for reducing fungus diseases and weeding for controlling the population of insect thrips in lathyrus crop. Whereas 21.87 Percent respondents were knowing the benefits of chemical alternation in improving the effectiveness of pesticides and more than half of the respondents (56.25%) had knowledge about deep summer ploughing to kill the harmful microbes in the soil, 40.62 Percent respondents had knowledge about crop rotation for improving the soil fertility. As for as adoption of insect pest management practices in lathyrus crop is concern, 56.25 Percent respondents adopted deep summer ploughing as cultural practice, 37.5 Percent respondents had adopted use of light trap as mechanical practices and 18.75 Percent respondents had adopted the use of resistant varieties (RL-41, RPL-26) for preventing the powdery mildew disease in lathyrus crop.