Integrated pest management practices

• Adopt synchronous and timely/early sowings of cultivars with similar maturity over large areas to reduce the damage by shoot fly, midge, and head bugs.

• Apply balanced fertilizers having adequate N and P to promote better plant growth, that results in reduced damage by shoot fly and stem borers.

       Cultural Control of Cotton Whitefly

• Avoid late sowing and adopt crop rotation with crop which is not the host of whitefly wherever crop rotation is recommended.

      Cultural Control of Spotted Bollworm

• Plough deeply to expose resting pupae to hot sun.
• Avoid use of nitrogen fertilizers at the reproductive stage.

        Cultural Control of Pink Boll Worm

Cultural Control of Cotton Mirid Bug

• Maintain proper spacing
• Avoid close spacing of plants which will encourage the population for multiplication

Cultural Control of Mealy Bug in Cotton

     Cultural Control of Cut Worm in Cotton 

Cultural Control of American Boll Worm

     Cultural Control  of  Aphid  in Cotton

         Cultural Control of Termite in Chickpea