Vol. 6, Issue 5 (2018)
Pest management adoption status of pomegranate growers in Western Maharashtra
Author(s): BA Deshmukh and SB Shinde
Abstract: Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is one of the important fruits of tropical and subtropical regions of the country, which belongs to family punicaeae. It is also cultivated in semi-arid tracts of the country but requires irrigation water for better quality of fruit production. Pomegranate is gaining a lot of attention world over because of its high economic and neutraceutical values. India is the largest pomegranate producer in the world (8.6 lakhs tones) sharing about 36% of the world’s production. Maharashtra state (cultivated area 82 thousand ha) is considered as pomegranate basket in India contributing almost 80% of production (560 thousand tones). Plant protection measures are vital for successful fruit production in pomegranate. The major pests of pomegranate observed in India are fruit sucking moth, shot hole borer, pomegranate butterfly, bark eating caterpillar. The study revealed that the majority of the pomegranate growers had 36 to 50 years age, received up to degree and higher education, had higher socio-economic status, cosmopoliteness and small land holding, cultivating the pomegranate crop on 2.01 to 5.00 hectares of their land holding, had annual income between Rs. 4, 00,001/- to 7, 00,000/-, were having higher scientific orientation (60.44%), economic motivation (58.22) and innovativeness (40.44%), 44.89, 38.67 and majority of the pomegranate growers had not adopted practices like removal of infested trees (64.44%), prophylactic measure, application of geru+ chemical paste (44.89%), drenching with azadirachtin (55.56%) with regards to control of shot hole borer/ pinhole borer. Further, majority of the respondents (99.11, 61.33 and 57.78%) had not adopted practices like spraying of methyl oxydematon, spraying of spinosad and biopesticides spray of NSKE or verticillium lecanni, respectively for control of thrips in pomegranate.
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How to cite this article:
BA Deshmukh, SB Shinde. Pest management adoption status of pomegranate growers in Western Maharashtra. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(5):3466-3470.
