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7.1 Bagging of Fruit A. Bitter Gourd

This document discusses several experiments on integrated pest management techniques for controlling pests and increasing crop yields: 1. Fruit bagging protected bitter gourd and cucumber from pests, diseases, and other harms, allowing them to grow healthier than unbagged fruits. 2. Treating corn seeds with the fungicide metalaxyl before planting controlled downy mildew and increased plant height, health, and greenness compared to untreated seeds. 3. Draining rice fields controlled golden apple snails better than flooded fields, with fewer destroyed and more standing seedlings where it was drained. 4. Flooding rice fields after transplanting effectively controlled weeds, with far fewer weed seedlings

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7.1 Bagging of Fruit A. Bitter Gourd

This document discusses several experiments on integrated pest management techniques for controlling pests and increasing crop yields: 1. Fruit bagging protected bitter gourd and cucumber from pests, diseases, and other harms, allowing them to grow healthier than unbagged fruits. 2. Treating corn seeds with the fungicide metalaxyl before planting controlled downy mildew and increased plant height, health, and greenness compared to untreated seeds. 3. Draining rice fields controlled golden apple snails better than flooded fields, with fewer destroyed and more standing seedlings where it was drained. 4. Flooding rice fields after transplanting effectively controlled weeds, with far fewer weed seedlings

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7.

1 Bagging of Fruit

A. Bitter Gourd

Bagged Not Bagged

B. Cucumber

Bagged Not Bagged


Discussion:

Fruit Bagging is the practice of putting bags or other appropriate material over
growing fruits to protect them from pests, diseases and other elements that pose harm
to the crop. Fruit flies cause serious damage to fruits and vegetables of wide range of
crops. Some of these crops are vegetable crops like ampalaya, cucurbits, and fruit
crops like mango and guava. However, fruits can be easily protected by bagging them
in a suitable material. A bag provides a barrier between the harmful elements like pests,
pathogenic organisms, and other factors that may affect the growth of the fruit. In the
illustration on the previous page, it can be denoted that bitter gourd and ampalaya
wrapped in plastic bags tend to grow healthy while those who were exposed where
seemed to possess retarded growth and prominent yellowing of the outer covering has
been observed. Thus, it has been proven that this kind of special practices is very
successful and efficient in reducing the effects of pests, diseases and other harmful
elements that could affect the growth of the fruit crop.

7.2 Metalaxyl treatment of corn seeds

Protected with Metalaxyl Not Protected by Metalaxyl


Discussion:

According to Extoxnet, metalaxyl is a systemic, benzenoid fungicide used in mixtures a


s a foliar spray for tropical or subtropical crops, as a seed treatment to control downy
mildew. The illustrations on the previous page shows that corn protected with metalaxyl
grows to be taller, healthier, and much greener compared to the treatment with no
metalaxyl which grows to be stunted and contains downy mildew. The fungicide corn
seed treatment of metalaxyl significantly decreased plant stand loss and reduced the
number of stunted corn plants. It also inhibits the growth of rootworms and effectively
controls the water molds and other soli-borne fungi.

7.3 Draining of Transplanted wetland rice for golden apple snail control

No. of No. of No. of


No. of active
Water Regime destroyed standing inactive
snails
seedlings seedlings snails
Drained 1 24 19 1
Flooded 20 5 10 10

Discussion:

Golden Apple Snails are highly invasive mollusks known to live in wetlands, irrigation
canals, rivers and rice fields. It can spread rapidly in association with running water
such as irrigation and drainage channels. As what table 7.3 reflects, higher water depth
or flooded fields accounted for a higher proportion of damage which contains 10 active
snails and 20 destroyed seedlings while the drained field accounted for 24 standing
seedlings. This means that at higher water depth, the pest caused significant damage to
rice seedlings. Limited moisture conditions immobilized and prevented the pest from
causing severe damage.

7.4 Flooding of transplanted wetland rice for weed control


No. of weed seedlings per 50 cm x 50
Water Regime
cm
Drained 35
Flooded 4

Table 7.4 shows the data comparison of flooded field and drained field in controlling
weeds for wetland rice. It can be denoted that the drained field obtained 35 weed
seedlings which is much higher than the flooded field which only contains 4 weeds.
Flooding rice paddies was one of the first tools developed by farmers to control weeds
in rice. On farms with reliable irrigation, water management is also one of the most
effective and lower cost methods of controlling weeds.

7.5 Glyphosate for selective weed control in conservation tillage

Manner of Use of Percent Damage Based on Unweeded Plot


Glyphosate Mungbean Weeds

Sprayed over mungbean 100% 100%


and weeds
Sprayed on emerged
weeds after land
preparation after which 0% 100%
mungbean seeds were
sown in rows
Discussion:

Application of glyphosate can kill an emerging crop. It can be denoted in Table 7.5 that
once sprayed over matured mungbean and weeds, it actually kills all of it. However,
when glyphosate was sprayed on emerged weeds after land preparation after which the
mungbean seeds were sown, it only kills the weeds and there are no damages in the
seeds. Thus, it is recommended to spray glyphosate before the crop has emerged.
AGRI 32

LABORATORY
EXERCISE NO. 7
Integrated Pest Management

Jethro M. Miñano

2018-04661
BS Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

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