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Commonwealth of Learning - L3 Farmers Project University of Jaffna

Introduction to Agriculture Technology Transfer Module



Chilli Crop Management

Sinhala version

Tamil Version

Expert : Hello how are you? How is your chilli field?


Plate 1: Healthy Chilli Plants


Farmer : Chilli plants are Curled ! or Diseased?

Click either curled or diseased !--------------------







Farmer : How do I make my chilli plants healthy?


Expert : Don't worry. You can adopt the following methods to manage the thrips. There are two ways to manage thrips

Farmer : Ok tell me the easy and cheap method >


Expert : First is, you have to spray chemicals, either Imidacloprid or Reagent @5ml/lit with a freqency of once in 5 days, if the leaf curl is clearing dont spray the chemical.



Farmer : Could you please suggest any methods other than chemicals, because these chemicals are hazardous to other organisms too.



Expert : Good to hear this message from you! You have better concern about the safety of environment. There is a very good bio-pesticide, some farmers practiced this and found working well.



Farmer : Its quite interesting, i would like to try it also



Expert : Yahhh! I found it works well. But its needs little time to prepare. Better you prepare it and keep with you if you observe the infestation again you can control with out damaging environment.




* Here are the Steps for the Preparation of the Bio-pesticides

  1. Take cow urine + cow dung in 3:1 ratio
  2. This mixture should be kept for 2 months in a container with open mouth
  3. You can spray this mixture diluting five times with water



Farmer: Its seemed to very simple and cheap. I will prepare and use.

Expert : Good. If you adopt some simple agronomic practices then you can minimise the infection in your field.

Farmer : Thats very good. Tell me those practices too....

Expert : They are so simple and easily practicable.

They are,

  • Intercrop maize with chilli
  • Grow Chrysanthemum as a border crop



Farmer : Its quite interesting and find to be easy to control thrips successfully.

Expert : OK, well!! Practice these methods and inform me the results.

Farmer:Thank you very much. I am going to tell this discussion to my neighbour farmers too. They also wanted to contact you to solve some of their problems.

Expert : Ok, wecome all and see you again.

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