Management of plant-hoppers in rice

Abstract

India has one of the largest area among rice growing countries. Due to warm, humid environment, rice becomes prone to attack by planthappens of different types, which do a lot of damage to the rice crop. Management of these plant-hoppers is a must to avoid crop loss. To control damage by plant-hoppers it is important to know about the nature and symptom of damage, crop stage when the plant-hoppers attack, growing of resistant varieties in different rice growing areas. There are other methods also to be used simultaneously to control damage by the plant-hoppers.