Question: telling that he has cultivated sali rice and now rice bugs are destroying his crops. asking the control measure for the same.
Answer: suggested that the population can be suppressed by killing the bugs by using light traps, colecting the adults with nets and destroying the weeds to remove alternate hosts. chemical control measures suggested is to dust carbaryl 5 per cent or malathion 5 per cent @ 25 kilogram per hectare.