The egg plant,Solanum melongena L.,is ravaged by the fruit-borer.Leucinodes orbonalis G.Use of systemic granular insecticides Had no effect on the fruit borer (Uthamasamy et,al.,(1973).Pranab Roy et al.(1973)concluded that paration 0.04 per cent sprayed.six times at 15days interval commencing from a week after transplanting was effective in reducing the infestation level of this fruit borer and also increasing the yield.Present studies were made with eight formulations of insecticides to find out their efficacy in controlling the brinjal fruit borer.
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