BCS India Slide 2

Brinjal – Fact

Brinjal is one of the important vegetables in India and India is the 2nd

largest producer of it after China.

Brinjal is prone to attack by many pests and by far the most damaging is Fruit & Shoot Borer

Brinjal Fruit & Shoot Borer causes significant crop lose upto 50% to 60%.

F & S Borer causes damage in two ways.

• It infests young shoot reducing the potential yield

• It bores into fruits making it unmarketable

To control F & S borer farmers use to spray lot of insecticides sometime twice a week

Farmers spray 15 to 25 rounds of insecticide in Brinjal for F & S Borer control

Brinjal F & S borer able to built fast resistance to any insecticide if used uninterrupted.

Alanto 123 strategy

1st visit – Spraying of Alanto in BCS Plot vs Farmer’s practice

Selection of same no of plants from both the plots

Take out of damaged shoot & fruit from both plots

Spray of Alanto in BCS plot against farmer’s practice at his plot.

2nd visit – 5 to 7 days after 1st spray

Take a count of damaged shoot and fruit from both the plots

Spray 2nd round of Alanto in BCS plot, Farmer take up his own spray

3rd visit – arrange a field day– after 2nd spray on next harvesting day

Take a count of damaged shoot from both plots

Harvest the fruits from both plots and separate good and damaged fruits

To show the comparison to all the farmers in the field

1. Marketable fruit’s ratio 2. difference in colour 3.Softness

BCS India Slide 5

Field day photograph

BCS India Slide 6

Field day photograph

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