SMELLING SUCCESS

As I was waiting for the scientists to visit my plot,Dr.Nagesh came in the month of July.He brought nematodes with him to apply.Along with my plot he applied them in the plot of Ashoka Bhat,Mairaje's plot too.
     After one week Dr.Kumar sir along with Dr.Prakash and Papanna came.They went to Jagajeevan Rao's plot and gave suggestion to him in controlling the root grub.His plot is waterlogged and they asked him to immediately fork the land and remove the grubs manually.Afterwords he shall apply Imidacloprid to his plot.Then they went to Mairaje Ashoika Bhat's plot . There they could not collect enough grubs . Afterwords they came to my plot .We find very little grub activity this year.If the first application of the chemical was a failure we must had a large number of adult grubs in the plot. But what we had is only small[first instar] grubs. Very few adult grubs were seen.  Scientists were pleased with the result. Dr. Kumar sir said that second application is not necessary.But to avert any human error in the sampling procedure ,they asked me to do second application. This year his preference is fipronil insecticide.
         Arranging workers is another story. But however workers came this week and I started the work.I need a little more days to complete the application.Even workers too,who had seen my plot earlier,agrees to the fact that the plot is improved a lot.
         Earlier we applied 20ml of chloropyiriphose per plant without success. But this year we could smell success with only 4ml chloropyiriphose per plant.This itself shows that timing and methodology of application is very important in controlling the grub problem.