Sugarcane on about 100 bighas of land under the mill zone areas of Rangpur Sugar Mills in Gaibandha district have dried due to severe attack of stem borer, locally called majra poka, much to the ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The giant sugarcane borer, Telchin licus (Drury) (Lepidoptera: Castniidae), also known as the banana stem borer, is an economically ...

Sugarcane shoot borer is a pest of major importance in all ... The larva cuts a hole in the stem above ground level and bores into the central shoot and feeds from inside. It appears pale ...

The most damaging insect-pests of sugarcane are top borer, stem borer, gurdaspur borer, root borer, which may cause up to 50 percent of yield losses.

He added that most important insect-pests of sugarcane were top borer, stem borer, gurdaspur borer and root borer which might cause up to 50pc yield losses. “Cry proteins from Bacillus ...

SAO PAULO, April 6 (Reuters) - Brazilian farmers are set to nearly double the area planted with transgenic sugarcane in the ... new cane varieties resistant to stem-boring insects will cover ...

The varieties, CTC20Bt and CTC9001Bt, are resistant to stem-boring insects ... been growing because "it provides control over the sugarcane borer in an efficient and sustainable way." ...