Cultural management
- Collection and destruction
of the stubbles.
- Deep summer ploughing (not
recommended under conservation agriculture)
- Planting of Napier grass
in the boundary as a trap crop.
- Inter-crop maize with cowpea
in 2:1 ratio.
- Two releases of Trichogramma
chilonis @ 8 cards/ha (1,50,000 parasitized eggs/ha) at 7 and 15
days after germination.
- Remove and destroy dead
hearts