| Damages : | ||
| Deadheart | ||
| Whitehead | ||
| Management Strategies at Various Crop Growth Stages: | ||
| Crop Establishment | ||
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Practice synchronous planting after a fallow period. This will deprive stemborers of continuous food supply, thus preventing continued reproduction of pest.
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Plant at the right time so that the crop will be harvested before the stemborer population peaks. |
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Use resistant varieties. |
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Change varieties every two to four cropping seasons.
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| Vegetative (Tillering) | ||
| Reproductive (Early panicle initiation to flowering) | ||
| Ripening | ||
| Harvest and Post Harvest | ||
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Stemborer information sheet | |
| Stemborer population in Maligaya, Science City of Muñoz | ||