Pest/Disease management

• Shoot fly (Atherigona spp.)

          • Early sowing of crop i.e. second fortnight of July or with the onset of monsoon.

          • Adopt higher seed rate (1.5 times the recommended seed rate) to make up for seedling mortality

          • Monitored by fishmeal trap

          • Cultivation of resistant varieties like Jawahar Kodo 137, JK-36

• Head smut (Sorosporium paspali-thunbergii)

          o    Resistant variety should be grown (Jawahar Kodo 137, JK-155, GPUK 3)