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Cashew Tea Mosquito Bug and its Management


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Cashew (Anacardium occidentale) is native of Brazil and has attained an important position among plantation crops in India. It is a very important foreign exchange earning crop of India. It was considered as a suitable crop for soil conservation, a forestation and also wasteland development. The estimated area under cashew in India is 8.55 lakh hectares and the production is around 5.73 lakh tons. The national average productivity is 815 kg per hectare (Maruthadurai et al., 2012). In India, it is mainly cultivated in Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala along the West coast and Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal along the East coast. It is also grown to a limited extent in non traditional areas such as Bastar region of Chhattisgarh and Kolar region of Karnataka and in Gujarat. Pest infestation is a major constraint in cashew production. It is attacked by a number of insect pests during different stages of its growth and development. Insect pests limit the production to a great extent as cashew is infested by nearly 200 insect pests at different phonological stages of the crop. A tea mosquito bug responsible to cause 30% yield loss (Devasahayam and Nair, 1986 and Maruthadurai et al., 2012).
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  • Devasahayam, S. and Nair, C.P.R. (1986). The tea mosquito bug Helopeltis antonii Signorett on cashew in India. J. Plantation Crops, 14(1) : 1-10.

  • Maruthadurai, R., Desai, A.R., Chidananda Prabhu, H.R. and Singh, N.P. (2012). Insects pests of cashew and their management. A Techanical Bulletin No.-28, ICAR Research Complex for Goa and Old-Goa: 1-16.


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Authors

A. I. Makawana
Agricultural Experimental Station (N.A.U.), Paria, Dist Valsad, (Gujarat), India
Hasmukh N. Leua
Agricultural Experimental Station (N.A.U.), Paria, Dist Valsad, (Gujarat), India
H. F. Patel
Agricultural Experimental Station (N.A.U.), Paria, Dist Valsad, (Gujarat), India
V. K. Patel
Agricultural Experimental Station (N.A.U.), Paria, Dist Valsad, (Gujarat), India
R. B. Patel
Agricultural Experimental Station (N.A.U.), Paria, Dist Valsad, (Gujarat), India
J. P. Makati
Agricultural Experimental Station (N.A.U.), Paria, Dist Valsad, (Gujarat), India

Abstract


Cashew (Anacardium occidentale) is native of Brazil and has attained an important position among plantation crops in India. It is a very important foreign exchange earning crop of India. It was considered as a suitable crop for soil conservation, a forestation and also wasteland development. The estimated area under cashew in India is 8.55 lakh hectares and the production is around 5.73 lakh tons. The national average productivity is 815 kg per hectare (Maruthadurai et al., 2012). In India, it is mainly cultivated in Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala along the West coast and Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal along the East coast. It is also grown to a limited extent in non traditional areas such as Bastar region of Chhattisgarh and Kolar region of Karnataka and in Gujarat. Pest infestation is a major constraint in cashew production. It is attacked by a number of insect pests during different stages of its growth and development. Insect pests limit the production to a great extent as cashew is infested by nearly 200 insect pests at different phonological stages of the crop. A tea mosquito bug responsible to cause 30% yield loss (Devasahayam and Nair, 1986 and Maruthadurai et al., 2012).

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