Agricultural Technology

Tomato moth, Tuta absoluta is one of the major invasive pests of tomato with a potential to incur 100 % yield losses particularly under tomato grown under polyhouse conditions. The effective package for the control of Tuta consists of use of incandescent bulb @ one bulb/150 m2 + 1 pheromone trap/300 m2 + need based spray of spinosad 0.25 ml/l/flubendiamide @ 0.20 ml/lin rotationat 3 weeks interval.