ENVIORNMENT,AGRICULTURE AND MANAGEMENT

 STEM BORER IN BHINDI                  BHINDI(OKRA) Native of Africa Family:Malvaceae    Abelmoschus esculentus The only significant vegetable in this family.Cotton is the other commercial crop includes malvaceae.  Shoot borer attacks very early in BHINDI crop that is in second and third leaf stage when the atmospheric conditions are favourable for pest infestation.Shoots infected with borer droop down,Greenleaf immediately wilt and finally dry up. Control measures Bacillus thuringiensis Trichogramma Cypermethrin

I am writing this as an outlooker of things happening as agriculture development.I know the facts like everyone of you aware about the grave situation in agriculture currently faces in our country and in state Kerela . News from the state and outside gain attention that many of us forward looker do struggling and confronting with agriculture issues for protecting agriculture and feeding our burgeoning population.In fact the agriculture problem portrays is a day by day problem.Although I wish to draw all your attention about the issues of marketing of agriculture produce and the effort undertaken to market agriculture produce in a positive way inside our state .What is the condition of market prevails now ? Which marketing system follows to gain marketing advantage ?How did benefit farmers from produce market ?etc questions have much relevance today.All questions point,we politicians,policy and decision takers ,intellectuals and general public who believe as the true performers had not

  Cowpea Mosaic        Casual organism: cowpea aphid borne mosaic virus Symptoms:first appears dark and light green patches  on leaf surface area.When the disease advances leaf become yellow and dry up.Affected plants have prominent leaf vein,smaller young leaves,stunted plant growth and distorted fruit.Aphid,whiteflies and thrips can transmit viruses from plant to plant on which they feed.Aphid feeding may cause the leaves and fruit to become distorted.Thrips cause severe damage to the young crop by sucking the           cellsap.Whiteflies also feeds on the under surface of the leaf.Disease will transmit through seeds having viruses . Control measures:No adequate control for mosaic disease only we can control vector transmission. *Use only healthy seeds *Spray malathion50EC@2ml/litre or Quinalphose25EC@1.25ml/litre *Spray botanicals like nee oil emulsion *Place yellow sticky trap in fields.