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Today, the rice sector heavily relies on synthetic pesticides to prevent loses. Nonetheless, these chemicals carry toxicity risks and can have harmful impacts on humans, animals and ecosystem. Thus, this study aims to observe the effectiveness of common Indian spices. The mortality and repllency rate were determined using a random arrangement with five different treatments. In this study, we have demonstrated the effectiveness of various Indian spices, viz, Myristica fragrans (mace), Piper nigrum (black pepper), Cinnamomum zeylanicum (cinnamon), Carom copticum (ajwain), Laurus nobilis (bay leaves) in protecting stored rice from Sitophilus oryzae infestation. The data was subsequently subjected to statistical analysis, with the significance level set at P< 0.05. Mace and Black pepper exhibited the highest effectiveness causing 90% and 85% of mortality respectively. In terms of repellency, the assessment of various reveals that Mace shows a significant repellent effect, demonstrating a notably high repellency rate within 12 hours. Therefore, the results indicate this trend (Mortality- Mace> Black pepper> Cinnamon> Ajwain> Bay leaves) (Repellency- Mace> Black pepper> Cinnamon> Ajwain> Bay leaves). This was an attempt to explore an alternative approach to pest management demonstrating that these spices contain elements with natural insecticidal and repellent properties. Experiment was performed to check the effecient of spices and repllency behaviour on Rice Weevil.