Cultural management
- Collect and destroy the infected fruits and grown up larvae
- Grow simultaneously 40 days old American tall marigold and 25 days old tomato seedling at 1:16 rows
- Setup pheromone trap with Helilure at 12/ha
- Collection and destruction of damaged fruits and grown up caterpillars.
- Release Trichogramma pretiosum @ 1 lakh/ha/release at an interval of 7 days starting from flower initiation stage based on ETL of 10% damage.
- For Spodoptera litura: spray Sl NPV 1.5 x 1012 POBs/ha
- For Helicoverpa armigera: spray HaNPV 1.5 x 1012 POBs/ha
- Provide poison bait with carbaryl 50 WP 1.25 kg, rice bran 12.5 kg, jaggery 1.25 kg and water 7.5 lit/ha
- Spray Bacillus thuringiensis 2 g/lit or any one of the following insecticide