Indian Journal of Agricultural Research

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Indian Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 52 issue 6 (december 2018) : 700-703

Efficacy of newer insecticides against sucking pests of rice fallow blackgram (Vigna mungo L.)

K. Swathi, P. Seetharamu, S. Dhurua, M. Suresh
1Department of Entomology, Agricultural College, Naira, Srikakulam-532 185, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Cite article:- Swathi K., Seetharamu P., Dhurua S., Suresh M. (2018). Efficacy of newer insecticides against sucking pests of rice fallow blackgram (Vigna mungo L.). Indian Journal of Agricultural Research. 52(6): 700-703. doi: 10.18805/IJARe.A-5093.
A field experiment was conducted to determine the efficacy of different insecticides against sucking pests viz., thrips, Caliothrips indicus Bangall and whitefly Bemisia tabaci Gennadius, infesting blackgram in North coastal Andhrapradesh at Agricultural College, Naira during rabi 2017-2018.The experimental results revealed that all the treatments showed significant differences in reducing the population of sucking pests over untreated check. Among the tested insecticides, thiacloprid 21.7 SC @ 0.0325% was found to be highly effective against thrips by reducing74.80 per cent thrips population followed by acetamiprid 4 % + fipronil 4% @ 2ml l-1 with 70.81 per cent over untreated control, whereas  flonicamid 50 WG @ 0.0325% was  very effective against  the  population of whitefly byreducing 72.19 per cent and lowest per cent disease incidence (17.66%) followed by acetamiprid 4% + fipronil 4% @ 2ml l-1 (64.94%) and thiamethoxam 25 WG @ 0.005% (62.21%) which were on par with each other over control. 
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