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Prediction of Bollworms Damage in Cotton in Relation to Weather Factors

Volume : 68
Issue: Oct-oct
Pages: 657 - 659
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Abstract


The statistical analysis of the data on the incidence of bollworms in relation to weather factors revemed the existence of significant positive conislation with the maximum temperature (t = 0.742) and sunshine hours (r = 0.518) as well as significant negative correlation with the minimum temperature (t = - 0.341) , morning relative humidity (r = - 0.67) evening relative humidity (r = - 0.746) intensity of rainfall (r = - 0.372) and number of rainy days (r = - 8.651) Multiple regression analysis has led to the conclusion that increase in maximum temperature by 1°C would result in an increase of 4.17% bollworms damage while one day increase in rainfall would decrease the bollworma damaga by 4.06%

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657 - 659
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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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