Name pests/diseases

Damage symptoms

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Management

Whitefly,

Bemicia tabaci

Yellowing, curling and drying up of leaves

Tomato leaf curl disease

1)Cover nursery with mosquito net to prevent the entry of whiteflies

2)Collect and burn disease affected plants in the main field

3)Spray triazophos @ 1.5 ml/l

4)Do not spray synthetic pyrethroid as these causes resurgence in whitefly

Serpentine leaf miner, Liriomyza trifolii

Drying and dropping of leaves due to infestation

Spray monocrotophos 36 SL @ 1.5 ml/l  OR

NSKE @ 4 %.