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- White grubs as the name suggests are white colored insects that live as a grub in a field whose dormancy period is in the winter.
- They initially damage chilli plant roots. Symptoms of white grub include a complete withering of the plant or stunting the growth of the plant resulting in the plant dying.
- Usually this pest should be controlled in the month of June and in the early week of July.
- For this, do deep plowing in summer use Metarhizium culture (kalichakra) along with FYM (2 kg + 50-75 kg) per acre for control of white grub
- But if infestation of white grub is visible even in the immature stage of chilli crop, then chemical treatment can also be done to control this pest.
- use FENPROPATHRIN 10% EC 10% EC @ 500 ml / acre, CLOTHIANIDIN 50.00% WG @ (Dantotsu) 100 g / acre as soil mix.
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