Rice is the world’s most important food crop and a primary source of food for more than half of the world’s population. More than 70% of the people of the Arunachal Pradesh are engaged in agriculture. Some traditional lures used in north east region of India like fermented fish, Puntius spp., fermented paste made up of the same, rotten pineapple, rotten crab, rotten frog and a dry fish, Harpadon nehereus were evaluated for the trapping potential against gundhi bug. Maximum numbers of bugs were trapped with rotten frog () followed by the fermented paste prepared from Puntius spp. | Farmers response towards the traps for controlling gundhi bug in rice field of Arunachal Pradesh An evaluation study
