author(s)
Chenesh Patel, RM Srivastava, Anil Rana, Roopam Kunwar, Jahanvi Tiwari and Kuldeep Dudpuri

abstract
The present study was conducted to study the effect of reflective silver plastic mulch in reducing whitefly population and virus disease on tomato. The experiment was conducted at Vegetable Research Centre (VRC), G. B. Pant University of Agriculture during 2018-19. The result revealed that the reflective silver plastic mulch had significantly lowered the numbers of whitefly eggs (ranged 0.60-2.60/cm² leaf), nymphs (ranged 0.00-2.20/cm² leaf), and adults (ranged 0.40-3.20/ 3 leaves) as compared to the control 1.80- 8.20 egg/cm² leaf, 0.80-6.60 nymph/cm² leaf and 1.40-6.40 adults/ 3 leaves. The mulch can be successfully used in reducing the disease incidence in the crop. Results from the present investigation suggests that reflective silver mulch help in suppression of whitefly population which leads to reducing the associated disease incidence of tomato which ultimately increase the yield of tomato.