Insect Pests of Fruits, Plantation, Medicinal & Aromatic Crops

Surveillance programme - three kinds

• The reports involved in the surveillance programme are of three kinds.
White card report or Normal report

• This is a weekly report in which the pest and disease situations are reported regularly.
Yellow card

• This is a special reporting system wherever pest or disease is noticed at 50% of the economic threshold level but still not attained ETL status. The information is immediately passed on for alerting the Joint Director of Agriculture (T&V), his subject matter specialists, and the scientists.
Red card

• This reporting system is adopted when a pest or a disease has reached the critical economic threshold level where immediate action programme has to be launched for controlling the pest or disease.