Entomological problem of major insect-pests at farmer's field in pigeon pea crop

The major insect-pests problem at farmer's field in pigeon pea crop were studied in district Faizabad and Sultanpur, V.P., India. The majority of the farmers 74% and 68%, respectively mentioned that they had knowledge and understanding about major insect problem Helicoverpaarmigera in pigeon pea varieties UPAS-120, followed by Cydiacritica 62% and 76%, respectively and Melanogromyzaobtusa 32% and 38%, respectively in Faizabad and Sultanpur district. In case of Bahar variety, majority ofthe farmers 58% and 66%, respectively had knowledge and understanding about major insect problems of Cydiacritica, followed by Helicoverpaarmigera 36% and 26% and Melanogromyzaobtusa 24% and 10% in respective districts Faizabad and Sultanpur. In local variety, majority of farmers 10% and 22%, respectively had knowledge and understanding about major insect problem of Cydiacritica followed by Helicoverpaarmigera, 14% each and Melanogromyzaobtusa, 6% and 8%, in Faizabad and Sultanpur district, respectively. The comparison of incidence of different pests in different varieties of pigeon pea crop in two districts Faizabad and Sultanpur. It was revealed that the value of Z test was less than the table value of 1.96, in all the cases, except one case i.e., 3.9 for Melanogromyzaobtusa in local variety. Therefore, prevalence of the pest on different varieties of pigeon pea in these two districts is of similar nature at 5% probability level of significance. However, the result indicated that incidence of Melanogromyzaobtusa on local variety was significantly different from that of other high yielding varieties in the two districts.