Chandigarh, July 22: Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar has conducted a survey to take stock of the incidence of various pests on the cotton crops in Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa districts.
As per the survey report, the number of the pests affecting the crops adversely is very small. However, the farmers need to be vigilant.
The team comprising Entomologists R K Saini and K K Dahiya conducted a survey in about two dozen villages of districts of Hisar, Fatehabad and Sirsa and found that the number of leaf hopper and white fly was negligible.
The presence of mealy-bug was registered only in 60 per cent fields and its incidence was noticed only on those plants which were grown along the roads or water courses where it was breeding on parthenium popularly known as congress grass and on yellow herbs.
The report saisd as of now, farmers needed not worry about mealy bug, as presence of anacius parasite had also been noticed with the mealy bug. The anacius parasite was destroying mealy bug.
Deprecated: strpos(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($haystack) of type string is deprecated in /home/agriviek8Qv/agriviet.net/public_html/wp-includes/comment-template.php on line 2522