Practice Name:

Control of Maize Borer Worm in Maize (Zea mays)

Details
Category	Crop Production
Crop	Corn
Crop Family	Poaceae
Scientific Name	(Zea mays)
Vernacular Name	Makka, Makai
Scout	HBN
Ingredients
Details of Innovation	Maize Borer worm is seen in 35 days old crop of maize (Zea mays). It eats up the internal pulp of maize (Zea mays) by entering from the top. Due to this, the plant is damaged. Goslabhai Shegjibhai Rathva of Joloda village of Chhotaudepur taluka, District Vadodara, adopts one interesting method for control of Maize borer worm of maize. He conducted the experiment by pulling out silky stigmata of maize to control maize borer worm in maize. He closely observed the plant and found that it had no worms or pests in it. He also also found that the seeds of corn were of good quantity. From then onwards, he has been controlling the worms in the maize crop by pulling out the silky stigmata. When the ear of maize comes up, the silky stigmata also grows along with it. Pulling out this silky stigmata creates a hole of about half a foot in the petiole of the leaf. Hence, the worm cannot enter in it and its life ends there only. The crop yield improves and the problem of aphids is also solved. As per Dr. K D Solanki, silky stigmata is the stamen of the maize whereas, ear of maize is an anthor of maize. The removal of stamen obstructs the pollination activity.

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Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Gosalbhai Segajibhai RAthava
District	Vadodara
KVK District	Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Mangal Bharati, Taluka :,Snahkeda, District : Vadodara (Gujarat)
Address	Mu. Jaloda Chotaudepur Vadodara Gujarat
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	391156

PAS_1	"The study was conducted in major 20 maize-growing districts of Bangladesh for analysis of maize diseases. In this study, twenty farmers per district were interviewed through pretested questionnaires for collecting data on maize diseases and diseased sample were collected for identifying causal organism. Isolations of causal organism were done in the M.S. laboratory, Department of Plant Pathology, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka. The major and minor diseases were determined by observing the prevalence of diseases in the field and opinion expressed by the farmers. Considering their opinion and field observations, 21 diseases of maize were identified including seedling blight, stalk rot, root rot, sheath blight, sheath rot, ear rot, bacterial leaf blight, may disleaf blight, Brown spot, tarcicum leaf blight, gray leaf spot, sugarcane mosaic, downy mildew, maize streak, maize stripe, maize dwarf mosaic, anthracnose, cob rot, store grain rot, cob sheath rot and cob sheath blight. The prevalent major diseases were stalk rot, leaf spot, root rot, cob rot, sheath blight, sheath rot, cob sheath blight, cob sheath rot, leaf blight, bacterial leaf blight, maize dwarf mosaic virus, corn stunt, leaf virus, maize streak virus. Seedling and reproductive stages were found more vulnerable to diseases. There was a positive and high degree of relationship among insect pests and disease incidence with weed infestation. The probable sources of maize diseases were seed borne diseases from outside of the country (cross boundary), imported hybrid seeds and infested soil. According to the opinion of the participants, proper training on quarantine diseases, improvement of quarantine laboratory and strengthening of quarantine law could be the best way for improvement of quarantine disease situation of maize." - https://www.jscimedcentral.com/PlantBiology/plantbiology-5-1076.pdf
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Central Highlands (Malwa), Gujarat Plain 5.2 (15 Dm4)Central Kathiawar peninsula, hot dry, Agro-Climatic Region (Planning Commission) Gujarat Plains and Hills Region (XIII) ,Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Middle Gujarat Agroclimatic Zone (GJ-3)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	DTP0010000002931
Reference	lok(5) 2, Mar-Apr-2000, Pg. No. 6
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/388
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	391156