Cultural management
- Grow
castor as border or intercrop in groundnut fields to serve as indicator or
trap crop
- Monitor
the emergence of adult moths by setting up light and pheromone traps
- Collect
egg masses and destroy
- Neem
oil (2%) 20 lit /ha
- Prepare
a bait with the following materials to cover one ha. Rice bran 12.5 kg,
Molasses or brown sugar 1.25 kg or carbaryl 50 WP 1.25 kg. Mix the
ingredients to obtain a homogeneous mixture, Sprinkle water (7 lit.)
gradually and bring the bait to a dough consistency. Distribute the above
bait on the soil, around the field and inside in the evening hours
immediately after preparation
- Apply
Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus 3 x 1012 POBs/ha
- Intercrop
lab-lab with groundnut 1:4 ratio