- I was away to Jakarta for 2 days this week on a personal matter. Then, attending a 1 day ' Workshop on Advances in Ganoderma Research on Oil Palm' jointly organized by Faculty of Agriculture and Institute of Tropical Agriculture, UPM.
- I was very delighted to meet all scientists who are currently doing a research on Ganoderma. We shared, discussed and talked about our research. One thing that I like, thus we are from different companies (to name some, Felda, IOI, MPOB, Sime Darby, United Plantation, Aseatic and many others), the community was very warm and cozy. They’re all very professional and excellent in their works (Of course some do and don’t..haha) and I have admired them a lot. I am looking forward to meeting them again.
Then, I went to Serting Hilir to see my plot trial with my boss and built up some important points to the manager in charge. For this entry I just want to share about the bagworms attack facing by them.
There are 3 species of bagworms that can give oil palm plantation a lot of damage.
These 3 species are:-
Metisa plana
Setora nitens
Mahasena corbetti
However, attack by M.plana is more perilous compared to the other two species. It can give you a significance impact towards the plantation. You can easily recognize between the species by differentiate their cocoon. They also have a different life cycle which is very crucial in order to combat their attack. M. corbetti has 141 days of life cycle (95 days as a larva).
Solution
By using cypermethrin through trunk injection or power spray depend on the size (age) of the palms. The palm census has needed to be done first in order to choose for the right time to apply the cypermethrin. This is very important as we need to know their feeding time before the back into the cocoon. Once they ate the leaves injected by cypermethrin (at the trunk or by power spray as explained earlier) then, they’ll die.
(M. corbetti in Serting Hilir)
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