India is the second largest onion growing country in the world. Indian onions are famous for their pungency and are available round the year. Indian onions has two crop cycles, first harvesting starts in November to January and the second harvesting from January to May.
The onion is a hardy cool-season biennial but usually grown as annual crop. The onion has narrow, hollow leaves and a base which enlarges to form a bulb. The bulb can be white, yellow, or red and require 80 to 150 days to reach harvest. The major Onion producing states are Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Telangana in the country.
Onion Insecticides | ||||
| S.No. | Product | Technical | Target Pest | PHI |
| 1 | Gaba-N | Fipronil 80% WG | Thrips | 15 |
| 2 | Baton | lambda cyhalothrin 5% EC | Thrips | 5 |
| 3 | Dowco | CHLORPYRIPHOS 20% EC | ||
Onion Fungicides | ||||
| S.No. | Product | Technical | Target Pest | PHI |
| 1 | Tara | TEBUCONAZOLE 25.9% EC | Purple Blotch | 21 |
| 2 | M Star | Azoxystrobin 11% + Tebuconazole 18.3% | Purple Blotch | – |
| 3 | Oudeman | AZOXYSTROBIN 18.2% + DIFENOCONAZOLE 11.4% SC | ||
| 4 | Stamp | DIFENOCONAZOLE 25% EC | ||
Onion Herbicides | ||||
| S.No. | Product | Technical | Target Weed | PHI |
| 1 | Glow | Oxyflurofen 23.5% EC | Chenopodium album, Amaranthus viridis | – |
| 2 | 24H | Quizalofop ethyl 10% EC | Digitaria spp, Eleusine indica, Dactyloctenium aegyptium, Eragrotis spp | 7 |
| 3 | Whip – S | FENOXAPROP-P-ETHYL 9.3% EC | Echinochloa colonum Dactylocteniumaegyptium | |
Onion insects, diseases and Damages
Spotted Bollworms
American Bollworm
Pink bollworm
Tobacco Caterpillar
Leafhopper
Whitefly
Cotton aphid
Cotton Mite
Cotton Thrips
Red cotton bug
Grass hoppers
Flea beetle
White feeding spots on the leaves
