Management of Pinkbollworm, Pectinophora Gossypiella (Saunders) with PB Ropel and IPM Approach

Pheromone monitoring indicated advancement of pink bollworm activity to as early as August during 2004-05. Soon after emergence, the PBW larvae enter the fruiting body. As a result, farmers remain totally ignorant about the damage caused by PBW and do not exercise any target specific control measures about it . Considering the emerging status of this pest investigations were undertaken to find out suitable measures to contain PBW, a large scale demonstration was undertaken in the farmers fields to evaluate the suitability of PB Rope L. Moth catches in the control plot were comparatively very high(12,478) throughout the crop season as compared to PB Rope L treated plots(198). Thus the PB Rope L treated plot recorded the lowest percent boll and locule damage compared to untreated plot and recorded highest yield and highest per cent good kapas.