CHANDRA BHAN*, HEMANT SWAMI, LEKHA, KULDEEP KUMAR AND SHIVANI SHARMA

The field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of seed treatment with different insecticides against sorghum shoot fly ( Rondani) during , 2017 at the agronomy farm, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Udaipur. The results reveal that all treatments were significantly superior over control. Among the treatments seed treatment with imidacloprid 70 WS was observed better with a minimum mean per cent oviposition (43.31) at 12 days after germination. The seed treatment with imidacloprid 70 WS was also observed to be significantly superior over all other treatments on the 14 , 21 and 28 days after germination with a mean dead heart of 11.74, 18.04 and 22.14 per cent, respectively.