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Bt Brinjal: An indispensable tool for Brinjal farmers in India (Selected Articles of National Web Conference: Vegetable Farmers Forum 2020) India is the second largest producer of vegetables in the world, but the average annual loss of vegetables is about 12 per cent which results in significant reduction in Indian agricultural economy (Manunayaka  et al ., 2020). The major issues in vegetable production are  lower market price, high input price, high cost of management for pest and disease, lack of high yielding variety seedling, lack of proper cold storage structures and losses due to natural calamity (Azad  et al ., 2014).  Brinjal ( Solanum melongena  Linn ) is the fourth important vegetable grown by small and marginal farmers in India. Farmers encounter several problems during brinjal production and the major one is fruit and shoot borer (FSB -  Leucinodes orbonalis  Guenee ), which results in 60 – 70 % of yield loss. Several pesticides gave optim...

Boll Weevil  Monument Of Alabama Insects are most fascinating part of nature. Apart from the beneficial part of the insects such as pollination, honey production by honey bee and maintaining the ecological balance in both terrestrial and aquatic eco-system, insects also act as pest of crops, domestic animals and human beings. We might have heard about the establishment of the monument for famous personality or divine objects, but a monument was erected in remembrance of destructive agricultural pest in Alabama, a constituent state of the United States of America. Boll weevil ( Anthonomus grandis ) is a most destructive pest of cotton, infesting and destroying the cotton crop all over the world. In the early 19th century, cotton was the major commercial crop grown especially for its lint in the states of America. The boll weevil entered America from Mexico in 1892. Cotton cultivation and marketing of lint was considered to be the major source of income and economic growth in America...