In the world, tomatoes are grown as a food product in more than 100 countries around the world. Tomatoes are a product that occupies an important place in the human diet. Especially on hot summer days, tomatoes do not fall off our table. In all regions and districts of the republic, tomatoes are grown on a large scale in farms and household plots of the population. Therefore, it is quite natural that the necessary recommendations for protecting it from pests, increasing its productivity and the results of scientific analysis will be interesting and useful to everyone.

    To date, several types of pests damage the culture of tomatoes in greenhouse conditions. This does not quite meet the criteria for providing the population with quality food. There are also cases of reduced yields caused by pests. Between 10% and 90% of the total crop can be lost due to the effects of pests and the diseases they cause. For uninterrupted year-round provision of the population with these products, it becomes important to find ways and means of effectively protecting their crops from diseases and pests.

    Master of the Faculty of Agrobiotechnology and Food Safety of Samarkand State University Guzal Saloeva is conducting a scientific study on the topic “Tomato pest control in greenhouse conditions by chemical methods”. Scientific supervisor-professor of the Department of Agrochemistry and Plant Protection Elmurad Umrzakov.

    - The purpose of my research is to study pests that affect tomatoes in greenhouse conditions, and chemical methods to combat them, to identify and put into practice modern and effective pesticides tested against a complex of pests, - says Guzal Saloeva, - These pests include tomato rust mite, spider mites, greenhouse mites, greenhouse thrips and plant juices, autumn nightshade, cotton nightshade, blackcurrant, pore-forming flies, nematodes and other pests belonging to various systematic families. As a result of severe damage by tomato sticks, plant yield drops to 40-50%, and in some greenhouses even to 50-60%. Therefore, having studied the features of biological development and damage to these, having scientifically substantiated measures to combat common greenhouse pests, it is required to create a set of cost-effective and low environmentally toxic methods and tools. At the same time, it is advisable to determine and put into practice the effectiveness of modern and effective pesticides tested against a complex of pests, to evaluate the biological and economic efficiency of chemical agents that give positive results.

    One of the important and topical issues is forecasting the timing of their appearance and the creation of environmentally friendly methods for protecting crops grown in greenhouses from pests. Promising chemicals used in plant protection and their effects on pests is an area that needs to be comprehensively studied.

 

 Iroda Bekmurodova

Information Service Officer

Samarkand State University.