Adaption of wrapping technology with Non-woven fabric stripes for themanagement of Coffee White Stem Borer in Kodagu District, Karnataka -A success story

摘要

The Coffee White Stem Borer (CWSB), Xylotrechus quadripes Chevrolat is a serious pest of Arabica coffee in India and cause severe loss to the coffee growers. In recent years under changing climatic conditions the incidence of WSB has increased significantly. Due to lack of adaption of control operations like, timely tracing and uprooting of affected plants (before flight periods i.e., March and September) due which the adults beetles are coming out and infesting healthy plants contributing for higherincidence of WSB. The main constraint that coffee plantations facing in adaption of timely tracing operation is lack of skilled workers to identify the infested plants and some time planters tend to retain infested plants till harvest this allows emergence of adults from the infested plants and spread the infestation to healthy plants.