Inital result

     I could not write anything for a long period,because I didn't had mood for that.In addition to that what I could write is the result of the treatment. After the treatment ,in the month of September Dr.Prakash of G.K.V.K.Bangalore came to the plot and searched for grubs.He declared that grub population was decreased very much and the treatment was a success. But I had my own doubt .The plot was treated with six different methods using five chemicals.Further a portion was kept untreated In which chemical the control was the highest ? In my opinion the plots treated with chloropyriphos,phipronil,imidacloprid and a mixture of imidacloprid and fipronil gave good result.But the surprise element is that grubs in the untreated plot also reduced. But how? A month after Kumar sir also came and searched for the grubs.He also said the same thing.He was satisfied with the result.He gave one clue for my doubt.Whenever we searching for the grubs we destroy the grubs which we collected.In this way a good number of grubs were eliminated from every plot.
      Kumar sir asked me to carry the work of  forking the land to collect remaining grubs. I could arrange the workers only in the month of December .We got on an average one grub per plant in the plots which were treated with either chloropyriphos,fipronil,imidacloprid.In other plots and untreated plots we got three grubs per plant. Scientists may differ with me ,because they say every C-shaped grub need not be root grub but we farmers consider it as root grub.But any how the number of grubs is considerably reduced is certain.
      Now I am confident of controlling grub problem. This confidence came after ten years ,after frustration,after humiliation in the society.Thanks to Kalam sir and the Scientists who were responsible for this.
      Months passed and in the month of May I wanted to remove the existing banana plants and replant it.Workers said that when they remove the banana plants they found a few ,three to four ,grubs in it.This helped to understand the still grub infected areas.And this activity removed a huge number of grubs from the plot.
     Now I think that second application of the pesticide is necessary this year.And this will bring the grub problem completely under control.Yet to see what Kumar sir says.Another interesting feature is that we found the number of beetles coming to the light in the night is drastically reduced this year.Whether this has anything to do with our treatment I don't know.