Experts advise farmers of harassment attacks on string crops
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MULTAN: Agricultural experts have warned farmers of pinkish bollworm attacks on string crops during a months of Sep and October.
An cultivation central pronounced on Wednesday that string stand was flitting by a vicious theatre these days as a series of rivalry pests conflict a crops.
“Attack by pinkish bollworm customarily intensifies in Sep and Oct and farmers should implement pheromone traps to check it,” he added.
Pesticide quick apropos a harassment for a environment
Experts warned farmers opposite a use of requesting pesticides before a harassment conflict as a precautionary measure. “It is a wrong practice. The cultivation dialect would never suggest focus of pesticides before a harassment attack,” a central maintained.
“It is endorsed usually when a harassment infestation reaches over a mercantile threshold turn (ETL).”
He forked out that if farmers request pesticides opposite pinkish bollworm before a attack, it would foster white fly infestation and emanate insurgency in other pests opposite a pesticides.
The central suggested farmers to request pesticides opposite pinkish bollworm after harassment scouting by some experts. “In box it is found to have reached ETL afterwards farmers should request pesticides after consulting cultivation officials,” he said.
Pest scouting twice a week urged
Earlier, a Punjab Agriculture Research Board (Parb) and a Department of Entomology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) inked an agreement for kicking off projects value Rs75 million to conduct a hazard acted by whitefly and pinkish bollworm that inflict a detriment of billions to a inhabitant economy.
As partial of a agreement, a UAF, Ayub Research Institute, Cotton Research Institute Multan, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Agriculture University Multan, Nuclear Institute for Biology, Central Cotton Research Institute and NIBGE will work together to tackle a harassment and insect hazard to crops. They will rise whitefly government strategies formed on integrated harassment government programmes and deliver insect-resistant string germplasm by genetic engineering.
For building tolerable government strategies for pinkish bollworm, scientists will consider a widespread of a insect, continue vagaries and their relationship.
They uttered wish that a projects would lead to alleviation in stand yields, boost in exports, diminution in imports and improved submit efficiency.
Published in The Express Tribune, Sep 21st, 2017.
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