Farmers in Sorapattu village of Mannadipattu in Puducherry seem to have a lot of information on using integrated pest management (IPM) for protecting their crops rather than using chemical pesticides for the same. IPM means judicious combination and use of all locally available pest control agents. All the farmers in the village have invariably curtailed the use of plant protection chemicals and started following practices like using neem oil, neem cake, tricho cards, light trap, pheromone trap, and ‘T’ shaped bird perches, thus helping them save more than Rs.5,000 per hectare towards crop protection (before they adopted this the...
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