RABI CROPS

WHEAT
Control of Weeds:

Doses

Broad Leaf Weeds

Algrip 10g/acre in 100 litres of water.

Wild Oats (Jaundhar)

Avadex BW at 1.0 Litre/acre in 200 litres of

water.

Phalaris minor

(Gulli Danda)

Topik 100 litre of water/acre 160g

Stomp 30 EC at 1.0 litre/acre in 200-300
litres of water within two days after sowing.
Leader 13g/acre 30 to 35 days after sowing.

PLANT PROTECTION
Pests
Termite

Control & Doses

:

Dilute 160ml of Dursban in one litre of water

& spray the same on 40Kg seed on pucca
ground or polythene.

Aphid

150ml of Rogor 30EC in 80-100 litres of

water per acre.

Army worm

400 ml Ekalux 25 EC in 80-100 litres of

water per acre.

Grampod borer

Ekalux 25EC in 100 liter of water per acre.

Pink Stem borer

Quinalphos 25EC @800ml/acre in 100 litres

of water

Brown mite

150 ml Rogor 30 EC in 80-100 litres of water

per acre.

DISEASES

Control & Doses

Yellowing in Seedling

stage

25 Kg Zn Sulphate per acre. One such

application enough for 2 3years. Add
muriate of Potash along with N & P 50, 25,
12.
Avoid excessive irrigation, if the cereal cyst
nematodes is present in soil apply furaden
3G@13 kg/acre. Apply 100 kg Gypsum per
acre.

Wheat Rust
Brown or Leaf Rust

Control & Doses

:

Bayleton 25WP@200gm in 200 Litres of

water/acre.

Loose Smut

Seed can be treated by captan or Thiram@

3g/kg (300g/quintal)

Flag Smut or Leaf Smut

Vitavox @2g per Kg seed.

Karnal bunt

Tilt/Foliceir 25EC@200 ml per acre in 200

litres of water.

Powdery Milabow

Spray with Karathane 40EC@0.05% (100ml

in 200 litres of water)

BARLEY
Weed Control
Bathu, Pit Papra

Control & Doses

:

2, 4 Dethyl ester @250g or ml in 200 litre

of water per acre.

Disease
Blight

Control & Doses

:

Grow resistant varieties like PL807, PL172 &

VJM201.

Loose Smut

Roxil @ 1.5g/kg of seed

WINTER MAIZE
Weed Control

Control & Doses

:

Atrataf of 50WP@500g per acre in 200 litres

of water.

Insect Pest
Army Worm

Control & Doses

:

40ml sumicides 20EC in 60 litres of water

per acre.

Disease
Seed rot & Seedling

Control & Doses

:

Derosal @ 3g/kg seed

Indofil M 45 @ 250g/100 litres of water

blight
Common rust

per acre.
SPRING MAIZE
Insect Pests

Control & Doses

Maize Shoot Fly

Thimet 10G@4Hg/acre

Jassids, Thrips, Pyrilla,

Rogor 30 EC @ 200ml per acre in 50 litres of

greyweevil & leaf

water

feeding insect
Gram weed control

Treflon 48EC (trifluralin) at 1.0 litre from

irrigated gram.

PLANT PROTECTION :

Control & Doses

Termite

Chlorpyrifos 20EC @ 10ml/Kg seed

Gram Caterpillar

Spray 200ml indoxacarb 14.5 sc in 80100litres of water per acre.

Diseases
Blight

Control & Doses

:

3 5 sprays of Indofil M-45 in 100 liter

water.

Grey Mould

Indofil M -45 @350g in 100-120 litres of

water/acre

Lentil
Weed Control

Insect Pest
Blight

Stomp 30EC 600ml/acre

Control & Doses

:

Captan@2g/Kg seed

Stomp 30EC 1.0 litre/acre as pre-emergence

Field Pea
Weed Control

within 2days of sowing.

Insect Pest
1. Pea Stem Fly

Control & Doses

Avoid sowing of crop earlier than mid

October.

2. Pea Thrips

Spray 400ml Rogor 30EC in 80-100 litres of

water per acre.

3. Pea Leaf Miner

Spray 400ml Rogor30EC in 80 100 litres

per acre.

4.

Pod Borers

Spray 900g Sevin 80 100 litres of water per

acre.

Diseases
1. Powdery mildew

Control & Doses

:

Spray Karathene 40EC @ 80ml per acre

using 100 litres of water.

2. Wilt

Treat seed with 2g of captan per Kg seed.

3. Rust

Just spray 400g Indofil M-45 in 100 litres of

water.

Rape Seed and Mustard

Insect pest
Painted bug

Control & Doses

:

Spray 400ml malathion 50ECEkalux 25EC

(quinalphos) in 60- 80 litres of water per
acre.

Mustard Saw fly

400ml malathion, 50EC in 60-80 litres of

water per acre.

Mustard aphid

Actara 25WG@40g in 80-125 litres of fluid

per acre. Dursban/coroban 20EC
(Chlorpyriphos) @ 600ml in 80 -125 litres /
acre.

Leaf Miner

Rogor 30EC

Hairy Caterpillar

Malathion 5% dust @15Kg per acre.

Greenpeach Aphid

200ml Rogor 30EC in 100 litres of water per

acre.

Diseases
1. Alternoria blight

Control & Doses

:

Indofil M-45 @250g in 100 litres of water

per acre.

2.

Downy mildew

3. White Rust

250g of Blitox in100 litres of water per acre.

Dust the crop with Sulphur@7kg per acre.

LINSEED
a) Insect pests
Lucerne Caterpillar

Control & Doses

:

Spray the crop with 450g of Sevin in 80-100

litres of water per acre.

Diseases
Rust

Control & Doses

:

Dust the crop with Sulphur @ 7Kg per acre

or spray it with Indofil Z-78 (Zineb 78%)
@500g in 250 litres of water.

Wilt

Grow tolerant varieties like LC2023 & 2063.

Powdery Mildew

Dust the crop with Sulphur @7Kg per acre.

SUN FLOWER
Plant Protection
a) Insect Pests
1) Cut Worms

Control & Doses

:

Apply 2 litres of Dursban per acre before

sowing. The insecticide should be mixed in
10Kg fine soil.

2) Tobacco

Caterpillar
3)

The Head Borer

or American
bollworm

Nuvan 85 SL(dichlorvos) in 100 litres of

water per acre.

Spray 1Kg of Sevin 50WP in 100 litres of

water per acre.

Diseases

Control & Doses

1) Stem rot

Treat seed with Thiram @ 2g/Kg seed.

2) Root rot or

Avoid moisture stress to crops.

Spray the crop twice with 250g Indofil M-45

Charcoal rot
3) Head rot

in 100 litres of water per acre at 15 days

interval starting at about 60 days old crop.
BERSEEM
a) Insect Pests
1. Black Ants

Control & Doses

:

Locate the nests of the black ants & destroy

them.

2. Surface

Grasshopper
3. Gram Caterpillar

500ml malathian 50EC in 80-100 litres of

water per acre.

Spray 50ml of Chlorantraniliprale 18.5(SL)

in 80 100 litres of water per acre.

Diseases

Control & Doses

1. Stem rot

One spray of Bavistin @400g in 200 litres of

water per acre.

2. Root rot or

Avoid moisture stress.

Spray the crop twice with M-45 in 100 litres

Charcoal rot
3. Head rot

of water per acre after 15 days then after 40

days.

KHARIF CROPS (PUNJAB)

CEREALS

WEED

INSECT PESTS

CONTROL

CONTROL
RICE

Formulation of Rice Stem Borers 1L of Coroban/Dursban in

Butachlor
50EC

100L water per acre.

Leaf Folder

Thiobencarb
50EC,

water per acre.

Plant Hoppers

1200ml/acre
mixed with
60Kg sand
after 7 days of
broadcasting
pregermination

1L of Coroban in 100L of

Thiodan /Endocel 35 EC in
100L water per acre.

Grass Hoppers

Thiodan /Endocel 35 EC in
100L water per acre.

Rice hispa

1L DURSBAN20 EC IN
100L WATER PER ACRE

Rice Root Weevil 3KG OF

THIMET/FORATOX
10G/ACRE
Rice ear cutting

EKALUX 25EC IN 100L

caterpillar

WATER PER ACRE

DISEASES

CAUSING

SYMPTOMS

CONTROL

BACTERIA
Bacterial

Xanthomonas

Greenish Yellow

Treat seed before

Leaf Blight

Oryzae

stripes appear along

sowing.
Do not apply excess of

the leaf margins, leaf

tip dries up, becomes
white in severe cases
& dries up
completely.

Nitrogen dose.
Do not use pond water in
field.
Do not grow nursery
under shade.
The growing of rice near
the area of Bhusa (Kup)
should be avoided.

Bacterial

Xanthomonas

Leaf Streak Oryzae

Small translucent

Seed treatment

streaks appear in the

interveinal areas of
leaf. Streaks enlarge
and turn reddish
when the plants are
near maturity.

Blast

Pyriculoria

Spindle shaped spots

Indofil Z-78, 75WP

grisea

with grayish centre

(Zineb)@ 500g per acre in

and brown margin on 200L of water at maximum

the leaves of

tillering & ear emergence

maximum tillering

stages. Alternatively spray

brown lesions on the

hinosan 200ml in 200 litres

neck of the panicle.

of water per acre.

Brown Leaf Drechslera

Two Sprays

Spot

Folicur 25EC @200ml or

Oryzae

Indofil Z-78 (Zineb) @500g

in 200L of water/acre.
Sheath

Corticium

Bavistin 50WP @200g in

Blight

Sasakii

200L of water/acre.

Sheath rot

Sarocladium

Two sprays of tilt

Oryzae

25EC @ 200ml or
Bavistin 50WP @
200gm in 200 litres
of water per acre

Stem root

Sclerotium

Grow Tolerant

Oryzae

Varieties of Basmati

False Smut Ustilaginoidea

Bunt

Blitox 50WP @500g

virens

in 200L of water/acre

Neovossia

Two sprays tilt

Horrida

25EC@200ml in
200L water at
flowering stage and
second after 10 days.

MAIZE

Weed Control Insect Pest

Atrataf 50WP

Sevin 50 WP (Carbaryl) 60L

Maize borer

water/acre

Maize Shoot Fly

Furadan 3G Carbofuran

@800g/acre in

5Kg/acre

200 litre of

Jassid, thrips, pyrilla, Rogor 30 EC @ 200ml per

water.

grey, weevil & leaf

feeding insects

acre in 50L of water

Army worm & silk

Sevin 50 WP (Carbaryl) 60

cutter

litre water

Hairy caterpillars

500ml of Ekalux 25EC in

100-120 litre of water

Mite

Spray 100 ml of
monocrotophos in 100 litre
of water/acre.

Birds
Diseases

Control

Causing Agent

Seed rot and seedling

Bavistin @3g/Kg seed

Several Fungi

blight
Philippine downy mildew

Indofil M-45 @200g/100l Peronosclerospora

of water

Philippinensis

Brown Stripe downy

Indofil M-45 @

Sclerophthora rayssiae

mildew

200g/100L of water

Maydis Leaf blight

Indofil M-45 @200g/100

Drechslera maydis

L of water
Late Wilt

Grow Improved varieties

Cephalosporium Maydis

PMHZ (2005)
Bacterial Stalk rot

Grow Improved Varieties

Erwinia Chrysanthemi PV

Parkash (1997)

Zeae

Megha (1990)
BAJRA
Weed Control

Insect Pests

Control

Atrataf 50WP (Atrozine)

Root bug

2L malathion 50EC in 100

@ 200g/acre

Litre of water per acre.

Grass Hopper

Malathion 5%
@10Kg/acre

Diseases

Control & Doses

Green ear or downy

Crop rotation grow

mildew

resistant varieties

Grain Smut
(Tolyposporium
Penicillariae))

3G of thiram/captan per

Ergot (Claviceps

Treat Seed in 10% salt

fusiformis)

solution & spray the crop

Kg of seed.

with cuman L27% using

500ml of it in 100L of
water per acre.

COTTON
Insect Pests

Control

Recommended Doses

Jassid

Imidacloprid

5g/Kg Seed

Pink Bollworms

Alphamethrin 10EC

100 ml/acre

Carbaryl

50WP

1Kg/acre

Sucking Insect Pest

Tobacco Caterpillar

Flubendi amide 480SC

40ml/acre

MOONG
Insect Pests

Control & Doses

Jassid , Aphid, Whitefly

80 litre water per acre

and flea beetle

with 375 ml of Malathion

50EC, or
250ml of Rogor 30EC per

acre, or
250ml of Metasystox
25EC
Hairy Caterpillar

Spraying 500ml of Ekalux

25EC or 200ml of Nuvan
100 (dichlorvos) in 80100 litre of water.

Semi Looper

Spraying 200ml of Nuvan

100 (Dichlorvos) in 80100 litres of water per
acre.

Tobacco Caterpillar (spod

150 ml of Novaluron

optera lituia)_

10EC in 100 litre of

water/acre

Pod borer (Helicoverpa

Acephate 755O@800g in

armigera)

100 litres of water per

acre

Mite

Rogor 30EC in 100 litre

of water/acre

Dhora

Fumigants should be
used . aluminium
phosphide / 100 cum 2ml
of sumicidin 20EC.

Diseases

Control & Doses

Yellow MosaicVirus

Spraying 40ml confidor

200SL (Imidocloprid in

150L of water per acre)

Cercospora Leaf Spot

Spray Zineb75WP@400g
in 100 litres of water per
acre.

Root rot

Treat the seed with Captan

/Thiram @3g/Kg seed.

Anthracnose

It is caused by

Treat seed with Thiram

colletotrichum

3g/Kg seed.

lindemuthianum
Bacterial Leaf Spot

Xanthomonas Compestris

Use disease free seed

Web blight

Rhizoctonia Solani

The field should be weed

free.

MASH
Weed Control

By Applying stomp 30EC

@600ml per acre.

Insect Pest

Same of Moong

ARHAR
Weed Control

By Applying stomp 30EC

@1litre per acre.

Insect Pest

Control

Pod borer

Indoxacarb

(Helicoverpa armigera)

14.5 SC@200ml in 100

125 litres of water per
acre.

Diseases
1. Cercospora Leaf

Causalagent

Control

Cercospora Cajini

Treat the seed with captan

Spot

or Thiram @3g per Kg

seed.

2. Bacterial Leaf Spot

Xanthomonas Campestris

Use diseased free seeds

3. Phytopthora Stem

Phytophthora drechslera

Avoid sowing arhar in soil

blight

with poor drainage &

follow rotation in badly.

4. Sterility Mosaic

Aceria Cajini

Destroy wild species

Control

80 litre water per acre

with 375 ml of Malathion
50 EC or 250ml of Rogor
30EC, 250ml of
Metosystox 25EC

RICE BEAN
Insect/pests

Jassid, Aphid, Whitefly

Spraying 500ml of Ekalux

and flea beetle

25EC or 200ml of Nuvan

100 (dichlorvos) in 80100 litre of water

Hairy Caterpillar

Spraying 200ml of Nuvan

100 (Dichlorvos) in 80
100 litres of water per
acre.

Semi Looper

80 litre water per acre

with 375 ml of Malathion
50 EC or 250ml of Rogor
30EC, 250ml of
Metosystox 25EC

Tobacco Caterpillar

150ml of Novaluron

(Spodoptera Litura)

10EC in 100 litre of

water/acre
Pad borer (Helicoverpa

Acephate 75SP @800g in

armigera)

100 litres of water per

acre.

Mite

Rogor 30EC in 100 litre

of water/acre

Dhora

Fumigants should be used

using Tablets of
aluminium phosphide/100
cum of empty space
before store of grains.
2nd Sumicidin 20EC.

Diseases
Cercospora Leaf Spot

Spray Zineb 75WP @

400g in 100 litres of water
per acre

Root rot

Treat the seed with captan

Thiram @ 3g/Kg seed.

Anthracnose

It is caused by

Treat Seed with 3g of

Colletotrichum

Captan per Kg of seed.

lindemuthianum
Bacterial Leaf of Spot

Xanthomonas Compestris

Grow resistant of varieties

& use disease free seed.

Web Blight

Rhizoctonia Solani

The filed should be weed

free.

SOYABEAN

Weed Control

Two hoeings at 20 & 40

days after sowing.
Use of stomp 30EC
(pendimethalin) can be
made @600ml/acre
within one to two days of
sowing.

Insect Pest
Hairy Caterpillar

Spraying 500 ml of
Ekalux 25EC
(quinalphos) or 200 ml of
Nuvan 100EC
(dichlorvos) in 100-200
litres of water.

Flea bettle

It can be controlled by 80
litre water per acre with
375 ml of malathion
50EC.

Tobacco Caterpillar

It can be controlled by
150ml of Novaluron
10EC in 100 litres of
water/acre.

Whitefly

It can be controlled by
Spraying 40ml confidor
200SL (Imidacloprid) in
150 litres of water per
acre.

Disease
Yellow Mosaic virus

It is caused by Whitefly. It
can be controlled by
spraying 40ml confidor
200SL (Imidocloprid) in
150 litres of water per
acre.

SUGARCANE
Weed Control

Atrataf 50WP 800g per

acre in 225 litres of water

Insect Pest
Whitefly

Spray crop with 40ml confidor

200SL (Imidacloprid) or 600ml
malathion 40EC (triazophos) in
150 litres of water per acre.

Black Bug

Spray the crop with 350ml of

Dursban 20EC in 400 litres of
water per acre.

GROUND NUT
Insect Pests

Control & Doses

Aphid

Spraying 250ml of Malathion

50EC or 150ml of Rogor 30EC in
80 litres of water.

White Grub

Treat the seed before sowing with

12.5ml of Dursban 20EC
(Chlorpyriphos) per Kg Kernels.
Kill Bettles by spraying 200g
Sevin/Hexavin 50WP (Carbaryl) in

100litre of water.
Apply 4 Kg Thimet 10g (Phorate)
per acre in the soil at or before
sowing.
Disease

Control & Doses

Tikka

5g Thiram (75%) per Kg of Kernel

SESAME

Control & Doses

Weed Control

Alachlor@1200ml/acre dissolved
in 200 litres of water.

Insect Pest
Sesame Leaf Webbr &

spraying 100ml sumicides/acre in

Capsule borer

100 ml litre water.

Jassid

Malathion 50EC in 100litres of

water.

Diseases

Control & Doses

Blight

It is controlled by Bavistin 50WP

@100g/acre in 100 litre of water at
10 days interval.

GUARA
Insect Pests

Control & Doses

Termite

Apply 2 litres of Dursban per acre.

The insecticide should be mixed
with 10Kg soil.

Jassid & White Fly

1 Kg of Sevin 50WP per acre.

Disease

Control & Doses

Root rot & Stem rot

TURMERIC

It is caused by

Dip the planting stock into 0.1%

Rhizoctonia

solution of Bavistin 50WP for 5-10

Bataticola

minutes.
1 or 2 hoeings may be given
Stomp 30 EC @1300ml per acre in
200 litres of water.

SORGHUM (Jowar)
Insect Pest

Control & Doses

Shoot Fly

100g of carbyl in 50 litres of

water per acre.

Mite

250-450 ml of malathion 50EC

in 100 litres of water per acre.

Disease

Control & Doses

Seed rot & Seedling

Treat seed with Emisan 6 @

Mortality

2.5g/kg seed before sowing.

Grain Smut

By treating seed with Sulphur

dust @4g/per kg seed before
sowing.

BAJRA
Insect Pest

Control & Doses

Root Bug

Spray 2 litres of Malathion

50EC in 100 litres of water per
acre.

Grass Hopper

Dust crop with Malathion 5%

@10Kg per acre.

Diseases

Control & Doses

Grain Smut

3g of Captan per Kg of seed.

Ergot

Ziram using 500g in 100 litres

of water per acre.