Tomato:

Insect pest: Thrips; Aphids; Mites; Whitefly; Beetles; Fruit fly; Cluster caterpillars; Looper caterpillars; Potato moth; Heliothis (Helicoverpa).

Diseases: Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV); Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) Bacterial spot; Damping-off; Powdery mildew; Tomato yellow leaf curl virus; Early blight; Bacterial wilt; Anthracnose; Fusarium wilt; Nematodes.

Brinjal:

Insect pest: Aphids; Thrips; Leafhoppers; Two-spotted mite; Beetles; Whitefly; Fruit and shoot borer.

Diseases: Damping-off; Tomato spotted wilt virus; Root rots; Tobacco mosaic virus; Tobamoviruses; Bacterial wilt; Nematodes.

Capsicum and Chilli:

Insect pest: Aphids; Thrips; Whitefly; Mites.

Diseases: Bacterial spot; Bacterial wilt; Anthracnose; Cercospora spot; Powdery mildew; Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV); Nematodes.

Potato: Thrips (thrips, Onion thrips); Aphids; Potato moth; Whitefly; Beetles; Looper caterpillars; Leafhoppers; Bugs; Potato moth.

Control measures:

1. Pre-sowing operation:

1. Deep summer ploughing: Helicoverpa, Spodoptera, Thrips, serpentine leaf miner and pinworm 

2. Soil solarization (with polythene sheet of 45 gauge (0.45 mm) thickness for three weeks before sowing): Helicoverpa, Spodoptera, Thrips, serpentine leaf miner and pinworm 

3. Apply Neem cake 250 kg/ha at the time of land preparation: Thrips and nematodes.

2. During nursery development: Raise Marigold (Tall African variety golden age bearing yellow and orange flowers) nursery 15-20 days before tomato nursery (as trap crop for Helicoverpa): Use nylon net of 40 gauge mesh to protect seedlings against whitefly infestation for leaf curl management.

3. Management in the main field: Transplant 20-25 days old tomato and 45-50 days old marigold simultaneously in the ratio of 16:1. Simultaneous flowering of both the crops ensures attraction of fruit borers to marigold flowers. A. Cultural methods B. Mechanical methods: Collection and destruction of eggs and early stages of larvae (Spodoptera): Handpick the older larvae during early stages of plant (Helicoverpa).

4. Physical methods: Use yellow/blue pan water / sticky traps @ 4-5 trap/acre Leaf miner, Thrips, Aphids 2 Use light trap @ 1/acre and operate between 6 pm and 10 pm Pinworm, Helicoverpa 3 Install pheromone traps @ 4-5/acre for monitoring Helicoverpa and 10-12 traps/acre for mass trapping of pinworm (replace the lures with fresh lures after every 2-3 weeks) Helicoverpa, Pinworm.

5. Chemical controll:

1. Fifteen days after planting spray imidacloprid 200 SL @ 0.4ml/l Whitefly, thrips, aphids 

2. Spray dicofol 18.5 EC (1.5 ml/l) Red spider mite 

3 Cyantraniliprole 10.26% OD @ 360 ml in 200 litre water/acre Thrips.

4 Spray indoxacarb 14.5% SC @ 0.8 ml/l of water Helicoverpa, Spodoptera and pin worm.