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Insect pest management in peanut: A cropping system approach

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F.J.S. Kennedy
Agricultural Research Station, Aliyarnagar - 641101, Tamil Nadu, South India
B. Balaguranathan
Agricultural Research Station, Aliyarnagar - 641101, Tamil Nadu, South India
A. Christopher
Agricultural Research Station, Aliyarnagar - 641101, Tamil Nadu, South India
K. Rajamanickam
Agricultural Research Station, Aliyarnagar - 641101, Tamil Nadu, South India
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Peanut
Cropping system
Insect pests
Predators and parasitoids

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Insect pest management in peanut: A cropping system approach. (1994). Tropical Agriculture, 71(2). https://journals.sta.uwi.edu/ojs/index.php/ta/article/view/2673
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Abstract

Incidence of insect pests in a pure stand of peanut crop and in different peanut-based cropping systems was studied. The incidence of pests was lower in peanut when it was grown with intercrops, particularly with pearl millet. lntercropping peanut with pearl millet at a ratio of 8:1 was optimum and economical as the land equivalent ratio was higher. This system also harbours more predators and parasitoids.
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