Pest/disease management

▪ Grow moderately resistant varieties such as M-13, Punjab-1, Polachi, J-11 and improved spanish and tolerant variety OG-1-13-3 (Kissan) to control Tikka disease.

▪ Grow resistant varieties such as J-11 and Polachi to control Stem rot, collar rot, seedling blight.

▪ Kadiri-3 and AK-12-24 varieties are tolerant against bud necrosis.

▪ To avoid bud necrosis, growing crop at high plant population and sowing the crop by mid-June, susceptible cultivars (TMV-2, J-11) should be avoided.

▪ Use of vegetative traps like Ipomoea, Jatropha around the field and fix light trap on receiving first shower of rain to control hairy caterpillar.

▪ Setaria (Foxtail millet) or bajra as intercrop at 7:1 and castor as trap crop for leafworm (Spodoptera litura) management.

▪ Use of pheromone traps @ 5 per hectare for monitoring of S. litura.

▪ Collection of egg masses of S. litura in groundnut as they lay eggs on upper surface of leaves.

▪ Neem seed kernel extract @ 5% or custard apple leaf extract @ 5% + Nomuraea rileyi 1011 conidia/ha @ 1 g/lit as a foliar spray at 45 and 60 DAS against management of defoliators.