How to prevent onion maggot in onion crop

  • The onion’s maggot is a very small white colored insect
  • It affects the onion tuber
  • In large tubers, 9 to 10 maggots attack  and make it hollow.
  • Because of which the onion tubers rot completely
  • To prevent this pest, use  Fipronil 0.3% 7.5 kg/acre  or cartap hydrochloride 7.5 kg / acre as a soil treatment.
  • Fenpropathrin10% EC @ 400 ml/acre or Chlorpyriphos 20% EC @ 1 liter/acre.
  • Spraying Beauveria Bassiana @ 250 gram/acre as a biological treatment. 
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