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@article{152320,
        author = {Sujatha D and Padmalatha C},
        title = {Influence of vermicomposting on crop protection and yield of   Tomato cultivation threatened by pests},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {},
        volume = {8},
        number = {2},
        pages = {907-911},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=152320},
        abstract = {The use of chemicals   for disease management in tomato cultivar may leave antimicrobial’s in the fruits which may lead to drug resistance bacterial strain. Also the use of pesticides to control pest in the fruit plant tomato may leave harmful residues .  The important causative agent for the bacterial disease in tomato cultivar   is Xanthomonas compestris  and the most threatening pest is aphids[mealy bugs].  In order to prevent and reduce this bacterial disease and aphid infestation  vermicompost  prepared using different vermibed with leaf litters containing leaves of Azadirachta indica, Lantana camara  , Ficus religiosa and assorted leaf litter  and  applied   in tomato cultivars  so as to minimize the use of chemical biocides. In the  vermicompost prepared using neem leaves (T4)  the  inhibition effect on  Xanthomonas compestris  was28.36  0.97 and it  was maximum (P<0.05). But it was less in  vermicompost prepared using  assorted leaf litter  (22.49  1.06), vermicomposted ficus   (17.46  1.23) and Lantana vermicompost (10.63  0.87).  In the   experiments it was observed that the vermicomposted neem leaf was very effective in preventing the damage caused by Xanthomonas compestris pathogen. Among all the treatments treatment  neem based vermicompost showed the highest yield (16.34  4.04t/ha   followed by treatment with Ficus compost   (14.24  2.36 t/ha).  From the results it was observed that the vermicompost extracts were very effective in preventing the damage caused by aphids to tomato plants.  The number of aphids were suppressed significantly (P0.05) by all three vermicomposts solution concentration with high suppression by 20% vermiwash than 10% extract and 5% extract. A dose dependent increment was observed in the mean dry weight of shoot and leaf area of tomato plants infested with mealy bugs  and aphids  when they were treated with different concentrations of vermicompost extract .},
        keywords = {Bacterial spot disease, Pests ,Tomato, Vermicompost},
        month = {},
        }