Castor

CROP MANAGEMENT

Seed management

1. Seed selection methods
2. Seed treatment methods

Soil Management

1. Compost
2. vermicompost
3. Green manuring
4. Green leaf manuring
5. Tank silt
6. Panchagavya
7. Jiwamrit
8. Amrutpani / Amrit Jal
9. Dung and urine extract

Pest management

Preventive measures

1. Crop rotation
2. Deep summer ploughing (for moisture retention and against insect pupae)
3. Seed treatment (against seed borne infections)
4. Neem cake in soil (against soil borne diseases, root grubs, etc)
5. Border crops (against sucking pests)
6. Destruction of alternate hosts to vectors
7. Light traps and bonfires (against adult moths of hairy caterpillars, Spodoptera etc)
8. Trap crops (against)
9. Bird perches (against Spodoptera)
10. Pheromone traps (for monitoring Helicoverpa armigera and Spodoptera litura)
11. Collection and destruction of  skeletonised leaves with larvae

Curative / reactive measures

1. Neem oil spray (against sucking pests)
2. Neem Seed Kernel Extract spray
3. Culling out infested capsules (against capsule borers )

Pest and disorders

1. Insects
   1. Castor semilooper (Achoea janata, Parallelia aljira)
   2. Red hairy caterpillar (Amsacta albistriga)
   3. Bihar hairy caterpillar (Diacrisa obliqua)
   4. Castor Stem and Capsule borer (Dichocrosis punctiferalis)
   5. Tobacco caterpillar (Spodoptera litura)
   6. Castor slug caterpillar (Parasa lepida)
   7. Spiny caterpillar ()
2. Diseases
   1. Botrytis
   2. Leafspot
   3. Wilt

3. Nutritional disorders
   1. deficiency

Natural enemies that you would find in castor
ecosystem

1. Micropletes
2. Birds
3. Spiders
4. Ladybirds
5. Parasitic wasps

Harvesting

Storage pests

Credits

References