ABSTRACT
Okra also known as lady’s finger or bhendi, belongs to family Malvaceae. The most recent biointensive integrated strategy for management of pest includes several components like physical methods which include hot water treatment planting material, soil solarization and bio-rational chemicals like pheromones. The cultural methods includes crop rotation, summer ploughing, fallowing the land, intercropping, pruning, mulching, spacing, planting date, trap cropping, use of resistant cultivars, etc. Careful consideration of sowing/planting date in okra reduces the attack of fruit borer and okra shoot and fruit borer. Intercropping of crops with diverse plant geometry and insect pests breaks the standard mono-cropping and limits the infestation from the pest. Diverse nature of plant not only obstructs the adults from egg laying but also the release of volatile allelo-chemicals from a particular crop deters the adult insect from damaging the crops.
