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TY - JOUR AU - Raviprasad, T.N. AU - Shivarama Bhat, P. AU - Sundararaju, D. PY - 2009/10/27 Y2 - 2025/12/06 TI - Integrated pest management approaches to minimize incidence of cashew stem and root borers (Plocaederus spp.) JF - Journal of Plantation Crops JA - JPC VL - 37 IS - 3 SE - Research Articles DO - UR - https://www.updatepublishing.com/journal/index.php/JPC/article/view/5966 SP - 185-189 AB - <p>Cashew (<em>Anacardium occidentale</em> L.) trees infested by cashew stem and root borers (<em>Plocaederus</em> spp<em>.</em>) were treated with insecticides, entomopathogenic fungal spawn and neem oil after extraction of the pest stages in such trees, to prevent fresh infestation; referred to as ‘post extraction prophylaxis’ (PEP). Chlorpyriphos (0.2%) was identified as the most feasible PEP treatment in extensive field trials. Treatment with either neem oil (5 %) swabbing or application of <em>Metarhizium anisopliae</em> spawn (250 g/ tree) were proved to be ineffective in minimizing pest reinfestation, being on par with untreated control. Adoption of phytosanitation by removing the infested trees having more than 50 % bark circumference damage was proved to considerably reduce the number of trees having fresh pest incidence during the subsequent years. The pest population in a given location and also the pest load in infested cashew trees could be drastically reduced by adopting regular phytosanitation.</p> ER -