• Shanmuga Nagar, Padappai, Tamil Nadu 601301
  • Working Hours : 24/7

CROP SCIENCE

CROP SCIENCE

IIBAT serves as an agricultural advisory unit by virtue of its long standing agri-expertise especially in the field of pest control and management including chemical, traditional, herbal and biological control measures.

IIBAT has been offering agronomy and entomology related advisory to the local farmers and for its own farm of sixty acres in terms of crop protection and pest control and management for about four decades.

  • Culturing of major agricultural crop pests viz., Helicoverpa armigera, Spodoptera litura, Plutella xylostella and Achaea janata
  • Toxicity to insect natural enemies (predator & parasites) as per EPPO guidelines (field study)
  • Phytotoxicity Study of Insecticides/Nematicides/Acaricides on various crops
  • Compatibility Evaluation of Agrochemicals against various crop pests
  • Evaluation of Insecticides/Nematicides/Acaricides against major crop pests under lab and field conditions
  • Bioefficacy and Crop Injury studies of New insecticide Formulations against crop pests under field/greenhouse conditions
  • Assessment of insect natural enemies toxicity of various Agrochemicals under field condition
  • Laboratory Bioassay of Agrochemicals, Botanicals and Microbial Insecticides against major crop pests viz, Helicoverpa armigera, Plutella xylostella, Spodoptera litura and Achaea janata estimation of LC50 and potency.