Proposal Seminar On

Eco-friendly Management of Brinjal fruit and shoot Borer

(Leucinodes orbonalis) under the field conditions

Manish Kumar Pal

ENT-03M-2018
Department of Entomology

AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE
RAMPUR, CHITWAN, NEPAL
28th shrawn,2076
INTRODUCTION
• Scientific Name : Solanum melongena L.
• Family : Solanaceae
• It is often called as “Baingan" or “Brinjal“ or “Egg
plant" or “Aubergine".
• In Nepal, the production of brinjal during 2016/17 was
128029 Mt from 8680 ha with productivity of 14.7
Mt/ha(MOAD,2016/17)
• According to FAO in 2012, China ranks first in the
production of brinjal (58% of world output).
• It is a good source of vitamins, antioxidants, proteins
and fibers (Obho, et.al,2005).
• The longer fruiting and harvesting period with higher
yield attracts farmers on brinjal cultivation
Shoot & Fruit Borer of Brinjal
• key insect pest of egg plant in all eggplant
growing regions of Nepal (Mainali,et.al,2015).
• a monophagous pest feeds only on Brinjal.
• A single caterpillar may damage 4-6 fruits
which shows circular exit holes.
• reduces the crop yield upto 60-70% (Singh
&Nath,2010).
• Singh et al. (2000) reported that the borer
infestation was 78.66% on top shoots in
vegetative phase and then shifted to flowers and
fruits with infestation reaching 67 % in fruiting
phase.
• infested fruits have remarkable reduction in vit. C
content (Ali et.al.,1980).
• Farmers apply insecticides 10-12 times in winter
and 25-30 times in the summer and rainy season
crop (Ghimire,2001).
• Absence of economical, eco-friendly and socially
accepted solutions is a key constraint (IPM CRSP,
2001)
OBJECTIVE:

• To study environmentally safe, economically

feasible, locally available and actionably
effective Brinjal shoot and fruit borer
management strategy.
METHODOLOGY

• Site: Janakpur,Dhanusha,Province-2
• Treatment: 7
• Replication: 3
• Plot size: 4.32 m2
• Spacing: 60cm*60cm
• No. of plants/plot: 12
• No. of sample plants/plot: 5
Plot Layout
 Treatment Details

Treatments Details
T1 NSKE 5%
T2 Ash
T3 Pheromone Trap
T4 Tobacco leaf extract
T5 Trozen @ 0.33 ml/lit water
T6 Chlorantraniliprole 18.5 EC@0.25 ml/lit water
T7 Control
• Spray: 3 times
• Spray start: 60 DAT
• Spray interval: 12 Days
• Data Record interval: one day before spray,
3rd, 7th and 11th days after each spray.
Data To be taken

Shoot infestation percent: (Number of infested

shoot/Total number of shoots)*100
Fruit infestation percent (by number):
(Number of infested fruit/Total number of
fruits)*100
Fruit infestation percent (by weight): Fruit
infestation percent (by weight) = (Infested fruit
weight/Total fruit weight)*100
Increase in yield over control (%): [T-C]/C*100
Analysis

• Recorded data tabulated first

• GENSTAT for analysis
• DMRT for significant differences among
treatments