March 29, 2024

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Vidharbha region farmers in a fix over rains, pest attack on pulse crop

The bountiful rains in the Vidarbha location of Maharashtra have also brought in its share distress to the farmers with crops such as Moong, Urad and Toor dal struggling with pests assaults foremost to significant crop losses.

Vidarbha is positioned in eastern Maharashtra, and it borders Madhya Pradesh in the north and Chhattisgarh in the east.

In Akola district by itself practically 90 per cent of the moong (eco-friendly gram) crop planted over 21,989 hectares have been missing because of to assaults by sucking pests and plant viruses. The sucking pests bore holes in the plant, which would make it susceptible to secondary infections by viruses. Urad has also been planted over 15,383 hectares with about forty per cent crop losses.

Farmer Vilas Tathod from Talegaon Wadner village in Telhara taluka in Akola mentioned that his moong crop planted over a few-acre farmland experienced been completely destroyed because of to assaults by a sucking pest, which in local parlance is known as Bhendya. Identical assaults have also been claimed on urad in the neighbouring villages. If a farmer pays very good notice to his farm, then he can get about 300 to 500 kg of moong per acre. But the attack is so critical that not even 5 kg has been harvested. Despite four pesticide sprays the crop could not be saved, plus the local agriculture college at Akola city has no responses to our issues, he mentioned.

Sucking pests are insects, which feed on the plant sap and in the procedure it also would make the plant susceptible to mosaic virus attack.

Framer Lalait Bhale from Akoli Jahangir village in the vicinity of Akot town in Akola district mentioned that this calendar year rainfall has been steady and devoid of a crack. The rains made the underdeveloped village roads with bordering black cotton soil incredibly slimy and practically difficult to travel. In such problems, the farmers could not reach their fields and even harvest the crops, which made the crops further susceptible to the assaults.

A government official mentioned the farmers could not access their fields because of to water inundation resulting in crop damage. Pests are voracious eaters and to control them the pesticide sprays should really be made on time. This Kharif year moong and urad are practically published off in Vidarbha and only toor dal, which is a for a longer time gestation crop is staying saved.