Incidence of Castor Insect Pests in Relation to the Meteorological Parameters in Southern Telangana Zone, India | Chapter 13 | Emerging Issues in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 4

 The predominance and severity of bug pests will be influenced by changes in bug pest rank in the existing agricultural surroundings and changes in climatic footing. To evaluate the population vacillations of insect plague of castor during kharif, 2020 at Regional Agricultural Research Station, Palem and relationship betwixt pests and weather limits, investigations on pest public with regard to the weather limits have been carried out. Castor is majorly of age in areas place mean monthly temperature across the increasing season ranges from 22.7 to 34.3 0C. It showed a powerful correlation between leafhoppers and maximum hotness (r=0.48) and a substantial equating between minimum temperature (r=-0.59) and the eve relative humidity (r=-0.56). and precipitation (r=-0.60). Thrips and rainfall have a negative significant union (r=-0.65). Semilooper and maximum temperature have a helpful connection (r=0.17). Spodoptera litura has a positive important link with maximum hotness (r=0.24), but a negative significant relationship accompanying maximum temperature (r=-0.49) and minimum hotness (r=-0.55).

Author(s) Details:

G. Madhuri,
Department of Environmental Health, Dian Nuswantoro University Semarang, Indonesia.

V. Divya Rani,
Department of Environmental Health, Dian Nuswantoro University Semarang, Indonesia.

K. Sadaiah,
Environmental Health, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan, Timur, Indonesia.

G. Neelima,
Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Walisongo Semarang, Indonesia.

N. Nalini,
Department of Environmental Health, Dian Nuswantoro University Semarang, Indonesia.

G. Eswara Reddy,
Department of Environmental Health, Dian Nuswantoro University Semarang, Indonesia.

P. Duraimurugan,
Environmental Health, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Muhammadiyah Kalimantan, Timur, Indonesia.

A. Shankar,
Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Walisongo Semarang, Indonesia.

M. Sujatha,
Regional Agricultural Research Station, PJTSAU, Palem, Nagarkurnool District-509 215, Telangana, India.

M. Goverdhan,
Regional Agricultural Research Station, PJTSAU, Palem, Nagarkurnool District-509 215, Telangana, India.

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Castor Based Intercropping System for Sustainable Income under Rainfed Ecosystem | Chapter 07 | Current Topics in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 5

 Castor (Ricinus communis L.) is a major industrial oilseed crop that grows well in rainfed and limited-irrigated environments. Castor is mostly grown in Tamil Nadu as an intercrop, mixed crop for long-term income in both rainfed and irrigated systems. As a result, the current study was conducted in Tiruchirappalli district, Tamil Nadu, to examine farmers' attitudes toward the castor intercropping system and farmers' income in a rainfed ecosystem. A purposeful random sampling strategy was used to choose a sample of 100 castor growers (farmers who farmed castor as a major crop). The samples were then investigated using a well-structured interview schedule that included closed and open-ended type questions while keeping the study's aims in mind. For administrative reasons, the entire study was limited to the Tamil Nadu district of Tiruchirappalli. According to the findings, adopting vegetables as an intercrop in castor production is a graded process in which a farmer must go through many stages such as awareness, interest, evaluation, training, and adoption. Castor growers used an intercropping strategy with groundnut (38 percent), redgram (25 percent), and cotton (21 percent). On the other hand, only a small percentage of the responders (16%) followed through with mono-cropping of castor with a cropping intensity of 100%. The castor yield was higher in the mono-cropping system (22.7 q/ha) than in the inter-cropping system (13.6 q/ha), according to the statistics. Cotton, groundnut, and redgram were the highest yielding inter-crops, with yields of 22.2 t/ha, 19.1 t/ha, and 11.7 t/ha, respectively. Intercropping in castor produced the following promising results: 1) 90% effective use of agricultural resources during the rainy season, 2) 85% reduction in input costs, 80% increase in farm revenue and returns, and 79 percent increase in food and nutritional security. While adopting inter-cropping in castor, the study found that castor growers favoured highly market-driven inter-crops such groundnut and cotton, and that few farmers preferred redgram for household consumption as well as local market. Adopting an appropriate intercropping method is a good way to get more money per square foot of land. Growing various crops in the same field at the same time is a strategy to achieve food security with the least amount of land available.

Author(S) Details 

V. Dhanushkodi
ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sirugamani-639 115, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.

V. Alex Albert
ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sirugamani-639 115, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.

S. Nithila
ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sirugamani-639 115, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.

G. Anand
ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sirugamani-639 115, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.

N. Tamilselvan
ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sirugamani-639 115, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.

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