Cultural Management

  • Ensure clean cultivation
  • Use healthy and pest free suckers to check the pest incidence   
  • Destroy diseased plants along with rhizome
  • Encourage activity of predators like ScymnusChilomenes sexmaculatusChrysoperla carnea and other coccinellids
  • Use Beauveria bassiana
  • Musa AAB variety of banana is resistant to aphids and thus resistant to Bunchy top