مطالعه و روش های ممکنه کنترول کرم نقبزن برګ بادنجان رومی

Abstract (in English)

         Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is one of the most important and widely grown vegetable crops in the world, because of its high economic value and more demand. It is produced by small, medium and large scale farmers for the purpose of business income and/or household consumption. Tomato leaf minor (Tuta absoluta) is the most hazardous pest of tomato all over the world. This is one of the major and key pests of the Salicaceae family. T.absoluta attacks all aerial parts of the host plants, including leaves, fruits, stems, and rarely roots. This pest is a quarantine pest that has outspread recently in Afghanistan and can destroy 80-100 percent of the tomato crop. This pest was first reported from Kandahar and currently spread in several provinces, including Kabul. Various methods like quarantine, cultural, physical, biological, chemical can be used for control of the pest. Due to excessive use of chemical pesticides, pests are gaining resistance power and pesticides are becoming less effective to control them. Reliance on chemical control and repeated unnecessary application of insecticides, in addition to creating resistance, causes environmental pollution and poisoning of products, which is completely harmful to human. This review article provides information about identification, life cycle, nature of damage and different control measures to combating against of this pest in open areas and greenhouses.