Evaluation of insecticides for management of thrips, Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood in cashew

Abstract

The production and productivity of cashew is influenced by many factors, among which incidence of insect pests is one of the major factor. Cashew thrips is one of the most important pest of cashew. Considering the importance of thrips, experiment was carried out at Regional Fruit Research Station, Vengurla under All India Coordinated Research Project on Cashew for management of cashew thrips during 2015-16 to 2017-18. From the pooled data of three years, it is revealed that the insecticide acetamiprid20SP @ 0.5 g/L was found to be the most effective for management of cashew thrips with the least incidence of thrips (2.29%) after third spray followed by deltamethrin 2.8 EC @ 0.9ml/ lit (3.68%).