<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-indent: 31.5pt; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\">Chickpea &lsquo;PG186&rsquo; was sown </span><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\">under field conditions at the Norman Borlaug crop research center, GBPUAT, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India </span><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\">during Kharif2010-11 and 2011-12</span><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\">in randomized complete block design (RBD) having seven treatments replicated thrice in order to study the </span><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\">bio-efficacy&nbsp; of&nbsp; certain&nbsp; new&nbsp; molecules insecticides <em>viz.,</em>imidacloprid @ 5g/kg for seed treatment, Thiamethoxam @ 0.2 g/lt, Thiamethoxam @0.3 g/lt, Acetamiprid&nbsp; @ 0.2 g/lt, Acetamiprid @0.3 g/lt, Triazophos @1.0 lt/ha and untreated plot as control were applied against stem fly and thrips. Among all treatments, lowest thrips population observed in treatment Thiamethoxam @0.3 g/lt with 6.67 and 4.37 in three and seven days after spray respectively over control. The minimum stem fly and pod damage were observed in imidacloprid @ 5g/kg for seed treatment with 72.67 and 4.00 percent over control. The highest yield was obtained in imidacloprid @ 5g/kg for seed treatment (955.5kg/ha) followed by&nbsp; while lowest in Acetamiprid @0.3 g/lt (887.98 kg/ha) over control 561.30kg/ha.</span></p>
 
<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 40.5pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-indent: 31.5pt; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\">Key words: Stemfly, thrips, Blackgram and <a name=\"_GoBack\"></a>&nbsp;seed treatment&nbsp;</span></p>