Cardamam Thrips-and Its Control

Abstract

Cardamom-Elettaria cardamom-is a spice crop,the produce of which is of late commanding very attrac - tive price in the market.The cultivation of this crop is,therefore being extended wherever possible.One of the main factors that has discouraged the large-scale extension of this crop is its susceptibility to a few insect pests of which the cardamom thrips-Taeniothrips cardamomi is the most important.The damage caused by these insects is so severe that the entirre rop is rained during certain years.The author has known a few cases where some of the plantation were abandoned.as the cultivation was not worth the trouble.in such badly infested localities:nor were the planters uniformly enthusiastic about starting new areas due to their utter helplessness against these tiny insects.As the situation was very alarming a scheme of research for the control of this pest was instituted during October 1944 under the aegis of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.The scheme has been running now for the past four years and some very useful information has been gathered regarding the control of these thrips.It is therefore thought that the publication of this short note on tthe results obtained may be helpful to the cardamom planters.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.194942

Pages

213 - 215

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Copyright

© 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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