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Pest Management in Sweet Potato

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As many 80 species of insects and non-insect species are known to attack sweet potato. The important pests include sweet potato weevil Cylas formicarius, vine borer Omphisa anastomosalis, leaf folder Brachmia convolvuli, sweet potato Hawk moth Agrius convolvuli, Bihar hairy caterpillar Spilosoma obliqua, syntomid caterpillar Euchromia polymena, tortoise beetle Aspidomorpha miliaris and spiny beetle Oncocephala tuberculata. Management of the key pests is also discussed.

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  1. ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, India

    C. A. Jayaprakas, E. R. Harish & Anjali Vinod

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Jayaprakas, C.A., Harish, E.R., Vinod, A. (2022). Pest Management in Sweet Potato. In: Mani, M. (eds) Trends in Horticultural Entomology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0343-4_47

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