Assessment of avocada (Persea Americana) pests in Dhankuta Municipality, Nepal

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dc.contributor.authorBogati, Ashma
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-13T09:10:13Z
dc.date.available2023-09-13T09:10:13Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe cultivation of avocado is increasingly popular among farmers in Dhankuta Municipality as it contributes to their economic growth. In this study, we assessed pest abundance and diversity along with pest infestation in five selected avocado orchards from the pocket area of the 27 avocado farming in this region. Pest abundance and diversity were estimated using specific pheromone and light trapping techniques from Nov- Dec, 2022. Total 1,693 individual were collected from the study area. Among the five orchards that were sampled, the fifth orchard had notably high abundance of species while, the fourth orchard exhibited a higher level of species diversity, as indicated by Shannon H value 1.61. The highly abundant pest species is Fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis from the Dipteran family Tephritidae but the most diverse species were from the Coleopteran family Scarabaeidae. Anomala dimidiata and Xylotrupes gideon were found to be the major pest of avocado in this area. A significant association was observed between damage to leaves and the presence of insects. The relationship was analyzed using a chi-square test, resulting p-value of 0.007233. For the control of pest species in avocado orchards their local farmers were observed implementing cultural techniques over other.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/19774
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Zoologyen_US
dc.subjectEconomic growthen_US
dc.subjectFruit cropen_US
dc.subjectAvocado farmingen_US
dc.subjectCultural techniquesen_US
dc.titleAssessment of avocada (Persea Americana) pests in Dhankuta Municipality, Nepalen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
local.academic.levelMastersen_US
local.institute.titleCentral Department of Zoologyen_US
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