Citation:

MQ Khan. 1967. Control of paddy stem borers by cultural practices. Pages 369-389. In: MD Pathak and AA Muka (editors). Major Insect Pests of the Rice Plant. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 729 p. Chapter 20.

Keywords: Cultural control, Oryza sativa, Scirpophaga incertulas, Chilo suppressalis, S. innotata, Chilotraea polychrysus, Diatraea saccharalis, Chilo plejadellus, cropping system, crop rotation, intensive cropping, bionomics, abundance time, generations, synchronous planting, trap crop, seedbed, time of planting, pruning, fertilizer effect, nitrogen, stubble height, time of harvest, sanitation, stubble removal, flooding, tillage, pasturing, volunteer plants, crop fallow