Influence of different sowing dates on seasonal incidence of pod fly, Melanagromyza obtusa in pigeonpea

Abstract

A field study carried out during kharif 2019-20 at Zonal Agricultural Research Station, Kalaburagi, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, Karnataka on seasonal incidence of pod fly, M. obtusa in long duration pigeonpea variety BSMR 736 sown across different dates viz., 20-07-2019, 05-08-2019 and 20-08-2019 revealed that, the activity of pod fly commenced from 49th SMW (7.20 percent pod damage and 3.69 percent seed damage), which continued till 6th SMW across different sowing dates indicating its peak activity with pod damage of 52.80 percent and seed damage of 46.31 percent in late sown sown crop.