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| Leaf folder disease attacks standing Basmati crop in Samba | | | Early Times Report
Samba, Oct 10 : Farmers of the Samba border have more reasons to worry with the continuous unprovoked firing from the Pakistani side as the leaf folder disease has attacked the standing basmati crops.
Farmers are complaining that their standing basmati crop has been badly damaged from Ramgarh to Lower Nandpur stretch.
Sharing plight with Early Times some farmers of the region -Narender Sharma, Kuldeep Kumar, Om Parkash, Parshotam, Madan Lal said that if necessary steps would not be taken, farmers will suffer huges loses and their hard work would go in vain. Farmers made a fervent appeal to the Agriculture Minister as well as Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to help the needy farmers who have suffered losses.
Pertinently Leaf folder caterpillars fold a rice leaf around them and attach the leaf margins together with silk strands.
They feed inside the folded leaf creating longitudinal white and transparent streaks on the blade. Why and where it occurs?
Heavy use of fertilizer encourages rapid multiplication of the insect. High humidity and shady areas of the field and the presence of grassy weeds from rice fields and surrounding borders favor the development of the pest. |
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