tailieunhanh - Biodiversity of pests of rice in Odisha

Major Rice growing district of Odisha was studied pest diversity. Most of the paddy farmers face huge economic losses in paddy cultivation due to damage by insect pest. This study aims to enlist major rice pests that are present in rice fields of all major rice growing district of Odisha are explained in this detail report. | 2020 9 3 566-569 EXCELLENT PUBLISHERS International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 3 2020 Journal homepage http Review Article https Biodiversity of Pests of Rice in Odisha Prakash Chandra Rath Lotan Kumar Bose Hatanath Subudhi Srikanta Lenka and Nitiprasad N. Jambhulkar ICAR-National Rice Research Institute Cuttack-753006 India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords Biodiversity Pests Rice Stem borer Green leaf hopper Crop cultivation Major Rice growing district of Odisha was studied pest diversity. Most of the paddy farmers face huge economic losses in paddy cultivation due to damage by insect pest. This study aims to enlist major rice pests that are present in rice fields of all major rice growing district of Odisha are explained in this detail report. Article Info Accepted 05 February 2020 Available Online 10 March 2020 Introduction Rice is the most important field crop and a good example of changing insect pest scenario in Odisha. After the green revolution in India there has a constant increase in the number of insect pests and a concomitant shift in their pest status diversity and spread Sain and Prakash 2008 . It is interesting to mention that the insect pest scenario of the crop gradually changing with gradual changes in crop cultivation practices and climate change especially the higher temperature. Several major pests have become minor and many minor pests attained the status of major pests. There are records of many new pests shifting the host and also some invasive pests due to change their habitat Prakash 2013 . There are many good examples of such changing insect pest scenario in rice crops. At present the major insect pests of Rice in Odisha are as follows Yellow stem borer YSB Scirpophaga incertulas Walker Swarming caterpillar Spodoptera mauritia Boisd. Asian rice gall midge ARGM Orseolia oryzae Wood Mason Brown .