Agricultural Jottings

Abstract

Campaign Agaist Chillies Tarips.Chillies occupy an area of about 43,000acres in the sixth circle comprised of Madura,Ramnad and Tinnevelly districts.Till very recently this crop gave satisfactory returns,yielding about 6 pothis of 250 lbs.each of dry chillies per acre.Of late the yield has been reduced considerably due to some cause or other.One of the causes.if not the chief cause,of this reduction in yield is the severe infestation of"thrips' Thrips are small straw coloured active insects which attack the plant in all stages of its groth.They suck up the 'sap' from the tender growig portions of the plant which make the leaves to shrivel up irregularly,causing leaf curl disease.The plants get stunted bear only a few flowers and of these only a small numder gow up to the fruiting stage.In worst cases the plants dry up completly and do not flower at all and the farmer is forced either to give up the infested crop or to recultivate it.if the season is favourable,with fresh healthy seedlings.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002201

Pages

378 - 379

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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