New Outlook on the Pest Management of Tea

An intensive ten year study on the pest ecology of tea has spotlighted some aspects which explain the unsatisTactory chemical control of many pests of tea, such as, tea tortrix, mites and shot-hole borer beetle. Evidence from past experimentation has revealed that in many instances the use of insecticides for pest control in tea has proved to be neither ecologically feasible nor economically worthwhile. b It 1s suggested that in future pest control in tea should be oriented towards bio-cultural techniques of regulating pest populations.