ANUJ SINGH, LEKHA, O. P. AMETAAND AZAD MORDIA

A field trial was conducted to estimate the losses caused by insect pests of tomato at the Instructional Farm,Department of Horticulture, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur, during rabi 2014-15. The insect-pest infestation adversely affected the plant height and other yield attributing characters. In the protected plots the mean plant height was 58.98cm, number of effective branches were 14.92, fruit yield per plant was 798.83g and fruit yield per plot was 55.92kg; whereas, the corresponding figures in unprotected plots were 52.58cm, 9.92, 616.18g and 43.10kg, respectively. The insect pests caused significant reduction in mean height of plant (10.81%), number of effective branches (33.41%), mean fruit yield per plant (22.19%) and fruit yield per plot (22.25%).