Eco-friendly Management of Tomato Fruit Borer

Tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. belongs to family Solanaceae. It is one of the most popular and widely grown vegetable throughout the world ranking second in importance after potato in India. Tomato is cultivated on 879.63 thousand hectares in India with an annual production and average productivity as 18226.64 thoustand MT and 20.72 MT ha-1, respectively. Whereas, in Rajasthan, the annual production of tomato is 73.57 thousand MT from 15.51 thousand hectares area with the average productivity of 4.74 MT ha-1 (Anonymous, 2012-13).