Cultural Management

  • Use resistant variety CO 419, CO 745 and CO 6516 and tolerant varieties Co 859, Co 1158 and Co 7224.
  • Small earthing up followed by trash mulching
  • Do not undertake maize, sorghum as intercrops
  • Prefer paired row system for planting
  • Remove the dead heart plants and destroy them
  • Collect and destroy the egg masses.
  • Collection of egg masses on campaign basis once in 4 days initiating the collection from the day of moth emergence
  • Release of egg parasitoid Trichogramma minutum and larval parasitoid, Isotima javensis @ 100 pairs / ha during November and December in Adsali sugarcane is found successful.