GOAL
Increase productivity and profitability of the sugar industry through maintaining pest and disease-free plantations.
Our services run deep and are backed by over thirty years of experience.
PRIORITY AREAS
- Development of Integrated Management packages for pests and diseases
- Prevention of introduction of alien pests and diseases through quarantine practices
- Regular monitoring of pest and disease status in all the sugarcane growing areas to avoid sudden outbreaks
- Promotion of use of biological control agents of sugarcane pests to minimize the use of hazardous insecticides
- Provision of crop protection services for farmers and sugar industries
- Expansion of molecular biological capacity for identification of all bacterial, fungal, virus and phytoplasma diseases in sugarcane
SIGNIFICANT OUTPUTS
- Development of an integrated pest management (IPM) practices for sugarcane pests.
- Biological control of sugarcane plant hopper, Pyrilla perpusilla by introducing a parasitoid, Epiricania melanoleuca from Pakistan.
- Management of sugarcane woolly aphid through augmentation of an indigenous moth,Dipha aphidivora.
- Use of natural enemies of sugarcane woolly aphid for the biological control programme and mass rearing for their augmentation and conservation.
- Recommendations of optimum hot-water treatment method to eliminate sugarcane sett-borne diseases
- Recommendations for management of sugarcane white leaf (WLD)/grassy shoot diseases (GSD)
- Identification of WLD/GSD causal phyto-plasma and its vector
SERVICES
- Regular pest and disease surveys.
- Instruction to the sugarcane growers.
- Pest and disease control work.
- Supply of bio-control agents etc.
REPORTS
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