Efficacy of different insecticides on garlic thrips

Abstract

A field experiment was conducted at Agronomy Farm, College of Agriculture, J.A.U., Junagadh (Gujarat) during Rabi 2013-14. The Effectiveness of different insecticides against garlic thrips, Thrips tabaci (Lindman). Among the eleven insecticides profenophos 0.05 per cent was found to be most effective against thrips and recorded the maximum bulb yield of garlic (4016 kg/ha). The highest incremental cost benefit ratio (1:38.97) was obtained with treatment profenophos 0.05 % and it was followed by Profenophos + Cypermethrin 0.044 % (1:36.40) and Imidacloprid 0.005 % (1:34.21).