Pest & Disease Control for your Crop
Leaf miner
Ridge Gourd
Symptoms
- Leaves with serpentine mines.
- The maggots punctures the epidermal layers and scraps the chlorophyll content between the layers.
Preventive Measures
Growing castor, tomato or marigold as a trap crop. Use yellow sticky traps or cards @ 10/acre.
Control Measures
Mix in 200 liters of water and spray.
Or
Description
- Warm weather conditions are favorable for multiplication.
- The incidence of leaf miner was recorded from third week of February to fourth week of April.
- The yield losses up to 41%.