Wheat: crop protection from aphid

Many crops like wheat, mustard, paddy, tomato, chilli, etc. are affected by the aphid pest. Aphid infestation can reduce wheat yield by 20 to 80 percent. If you are cultivating wheat and are troubled by the infestation of aphid then read this post carefully. From here you can learn the identification of aphid pest, symptoms of infestation along with ways to control this pest.

How to identify aphid pest?

• Aphids are green, brown and black in colour.

• The length of this insect is 1 to 1.5 mm.

How do aphids damage wheat crops?

• These pests damage the crop by sucking the juice of wheat leaves.

• These insects also suck the juice of the grains while the grains are forming in the earrings.

• If this pest is not controlled in time, then the growth of plants stops.

How to control aphid pest?

• To control this pest, apply 6-8 yellow sticky traps per acre of field.

• Spray 50 ml country hawk in 150 liters of water.

• Control of this pest can also be achieved by spraying 12 to 15 ml Tatamida in 15 liters of water.

• Repeat spraying if required at an interval of 10 to 15 days.

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We hope that by adopting the medicines and other methods mentioned in this post, we can easily control aphid in wheat crop. If you liked this information, then like this post and also share it with other farmers. So that more and more farmers can take advantage of this information. Ask us your questions related to this through comments.