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