author(s)
MM Dubale, VN Jalgaonkar, GM Golvankar, KV Naik and AY Munj

abstract
The field study was carried out on the evaluation of Luffa acutangula L. cultivars against leaf miner during kharif season of 2017 at Central Experimental Station, Wakawali, Dist. Ratnagiri. During present investigation, fifteen ridge gourd cultivars were screened against leaf miner infesting ridge gourd. The infestation of leaf miner was started from seedling stage of ridge gourd. The results revealed that the highest mean infestation of leaf miner was recorded in cultivar RG-2 with 0.88 ± 0.46 leaf mines/three leaves/plant followed by Utkal Trupti (0.84), RG-1 (0.84) and RGH-3 (0.50). The minimum mean infestation (0.13 ± 0.46) was recorded in cultivar KRG-5.