Symptoms

• Nymphs & adult suck the juice within grains when they are in milky stage.
• Grains shrink & turn black in colour and ill filled or chaffy

Management

• Dust with quinalphos 1.5% 12 kg/ha synchronising during milky stage.
• Grow resistant cultivars like IS1760, IS 17645, CSM 388, Chencholam, BBR -1(ICS V239).