Effectiveness of Different Insecticides Against White-Backed Plant Hopper, Sogatella furcifera (Horv.) on Rice Crop

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Asian Journal of Plant Sciences

Year: 2002 | Volume: 1 | Issue: 2 | Page No.: 199-200
DOI: 10.3923/ajps.2002.199.200

**Effectiveness of Different Insecticides Against White-Backed Plant Hopper, Sogatella furcifera (Horv.) on Rice Crop**

Imtiaz A. Nizamani, Muzaffar A. Talpur and Khalid H. Qureshi

Abstract: An experiment was laid out to evaluate the effectiveness of different insecticides against white-backed plant hopper on rice crop at Entomology Section, Rice Research Institute Dokri, during summer, 2000. Five insecticides namely Thioluxan 50EC (endosulfan) at 600 ml/ac, Tamaron 60SL (methamidophos) at 400 ml/ac, Procuron 400EC (profenofos) at 500 ml/ac, Curacron 500EC (profenofos) at 250 ml/ac and Trend 60SL (methamidophos) at 400 ml/ac were tried and compared with an un-treated control. It was found that all insecticides reduced population of white-backed plant hopper significantly at 24, 48-hours and one- week of post- treatment and increased paddy yield over check plot. However, Procuran found to be significantly more effective in contrast to rest of the product tested.

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Imtiaz A. Nizamani, Muzaffar A. Talpur and Khalid H. Qureshi, 2002. Effectiveness of Different Insecticides Against White-Backed Plant Hopper, Sogatella furcifera (Horv.) on Rice Crop. Asian Journal of Plant Sciences, 1: 199-200.

Keywords: white-backed plant hopper, chemical control, paddy yield and dorki

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