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


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