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Indian Farming October 1949

1949

The eggs are laid in pods in the autumn at a depth of two to three inches in the soil most often among the roots at the base of jowar and bajra plants and of the bushes on the field bunds etc. [...] Control of grasshoppers Till recently the chief methods of control of various grasshoppers comprised of (a) destrution of the eggs by ploughing the egg-laid area or scraping of a few inches of the soil along with the egg-pods (b) poison-baiting of the hoppers and the adults and (c) trapping them in hopperdozers or tin sheets besmeared with a sticky substance such as coal-tar. [...] In the case of the Rice-grasshopper and Phadka the use of the bait is possible only when the hoppers are yet young and concetrated on the bund or in the grass land. [...] In the case of the Rice-grasshopper the condition of the field (water or mud) makes baiting inside the field unpractical and in the case of Phadka the bait spread out on the field remains untouched because the grashoppers remain always on the plants themselves. [...] However in the case of Deccan Wingless grashopper since the pest first appears in the fields themselves when the crop is almost in the germinating stage baiting is required and is practicable both in the field and around on the bunds etc.
agriculture environment
Pages
89
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120055
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii U. N. Chatterjee view
Frontmatter
i-xiii U. N. Chatterjee view
Combating the Food Shortage
413-415 U. N. Chatterjee view
The Control of Grasshopper Pests of Cereal Crops
416-422 Hem Pruthi view
Plant Introduction Reporter—I
423-vii B. P. Pal, H. B. Singh view
Seed from Partially Disease-Free Potato Crop
433-435 R. S. Vasudeva, R. N. Azad view
Cost of Production of Wheat on the Government Farm Kalyanpur (Kanpur)
436-440 G. D. Agrawal, Ram Saran view
Freezing Point of Milk and its Applicability to Detect Adulteration of Milk
441-443 U. N. Chatterjee view
Birdsfoot Trefoil
444-447 M. R. Panikkar view
Water Conservation and Flood Control
448-449 P. V. C. Rao view
What the Scientists are doing
450-451 U. N. Chatterjee view
You Ask We Answer
452-453 U. N. Chatterjee view
What’s doing in All-India
454-459 U. N. Chatterjee view
Across the Borders
460-464 A. R. Grayson view
Home Gleanings
465-466 U. N. Chatterjee view
The Indian Sugar Industry (1947-48 Annual)
467-468 U. N. Chatterjee view
Farm Accounts
468-468 U. N. Chatterjee view
The Indian Cotton Textile Industry (1947-48 Annual)
468-468 U. N. Chatterjee view
News and Views
469-472 U. N. Chatterjee view
Backmatter
473-474 U. N. Chatterjee view

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