Management of birds in Sorghum crop at College farm, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad

Higher number of birds population were observed in the college farm research fields and damage the field crops under unprotected conditions. Moreover, complaints also from surrounding farmers, particularly adjacent to college farm and nearby villages were noted. Field experiments were conducted at college farm, PJTSAU, Hyderabad during Kharif and Rabi 2023-24 to evaluate the eco-friendly bird management methods on sorghum. Five treatments were replicated four times in RBD with PYPS-2 at a spacing of 45x15cm and plot size was 5x5m.Treatments were imposed at the milky grain stage. Salt@25g/l, Egg+Hing@25ml/l, Ginger+garlic@30ml/l and Deepam oil@25ml/l were tested along with one untreated control. Among these, Egg+Hing proved to be the best as per cent bird damage recorded was 15.67 in kharif and 15.0 in rabi followed by Salt spray(24.72 and 18.25%) as against 49.56% and 31.5% respectively in control. The highest yield of 2963 kg/ha in kharif and 1470.89kg/ha in rabi was recorded in the best treatment.