Question: telling that he has cultivated rice in a land of almost 1 acre and now his crop has been attacked by rice bug and causing damage. asking for the remedy.
Answer: suggested mr. abdul that the population can be suppressed by killing the bugs by using light traps, collecting the adults with nets and destroying the weeds to remove alternate hosts  or  if he goes for  chemical control measures then he should apply malathion dust 5 percent or carbaryl dust 5 percent @ 25 kilogram per hectare.