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BANANA Rhizome weevil Cosmopolites sordidus (Curculionidae: Coleoptera) It is a major pest of banana. Adult is a stout, reddish brown weevil. Grub is apodous and yellowish with reddish head. Grub bores into rhizome and tunnels within it. Pupates within a chamber made near the outer surface of rhizome. Adult also tunnels within stem feeding on […]
Mulberry cultivation Mulberry is a fast growing deciduous tree occurring in sub tropical and temperate climate. Mulberry has characteristic long idioblast cells in the upper epidermis of leaves. Inflorescence is a catkin / spike with unisexual flowers. Hence it is a cross pollinated crop. The important species of mulberry cultivated in India are , a) […]