Insect Pest Complex of Chickpea Crop

Author: Sheikh Aafreen Rehman, Shaheen Gul, Mudasir Gani, Ishtiyaq Ahad, Reyaz ul Rouf Mir, Fehim Jeelani Wani, Zaffar M. Dar and Danishta Aziz

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Abstract

Chickpea is an important pulse crop grown worldwide. Looking into the significance of chickpea, as it finds a pride place among pulses across the world and India therefore current study was carried out during kharif (2020) to observe various insect pests on chickpea crop. Nearly 7 insect species have been found as main damaging pests in the crop, out of which three were soil borne viz. whitegrub (Holotrichia longipennis), wireworm (Agriotes spp.) and cutworm (Agrotis ipsilon) and four were foliage pests viz. black aphid (Aphis craccivora), gram pod borer (Helicoverpa armigera), semilooper (Thysanopulsia orichalcea) and flea beetle (Altica himensis). Apart from insect pests, non-insect pest i.e. field rat was also found to damage the crop. Among insect pests, H. armigera pest severely attacks the chickpea right from vegetative phase to maturity stage. The present study advocates wide range of location specific pest complex in chickpea to develop prophylactic reproducible practices for l

Keywords

Chickpea, pest complex, insect damage, sucking pests, foliage feeders