Effect of rice husk ash on controlling insect pests on storage of black gram under Manipur condition

Abstract

An experiment was conducted in the experimental laboratory of Agronomy Department, College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, in 2016to 2018, to study the “Effect of rice husk ash on controlling insect pests on storage of blackgram under Manipur condition. It was observed that when we mixed the rice husk ash with blackgram seeds and stored in the ratio blackgram: rice husk ash (1: 0.25 and above 250g of rice husk ash), there was no loss of the blackgram seeds from the insect pests. In control i.e. T1 (blackgram seeds without rice husk ash) was found 100% damage in one year and less damage from T2 toT4 where treatments with blackgram seeds: rice husk ash were 1:0.10, 1:0.15, and 1:0.20 respectively.