Organic Methods of Pest Management for Coffee

A descriptive research study was conducted to "assess the knowledge; attitude and management practice on OPM in the coffee orchard." The Stratified method was used to select 100 coffee farmers from two VDCs of Palpa district. Farmers were practices the organic method to manage the coffee pests. Among the insect pest of the coffee plant in Palpa district, the White Stem Borer was major problem. In coffee orchards, farmers were found following various practices 70% of the respondents adopted mechanical, and physical, followed by 20% of the respondents adopted cultural method, and 10% of the respondent followed locally prepared pesticide“Jaibik Bisasdi”and other practices i.e. applying dung, red soil, wood ash, oil, urine, etc. Although the survey result revealed that there was wide-spread occurrence of insect pests, poor plant management practices, time consuming using bio- pesticide and lack of pest tolerance varieties. Therefore, The long-term strategies should be made among growers and research organization to address the such problems.