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

The bountiful rains in the Vidarbha location of Maharashtra have also introduced in its share misery to the farmers with crops these types of as Moong, Urad and Toor dal experiencing pests assaults leading to key crop losses.

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

In Akola district on your own just about ninety for every cent of the moong (green gram) crop planted about 21,989 hectares have been shed owing to assaults by sucking pests and plant viruses. The sucking pests bore holes in the plant, which will make it vulnerable to secondary bacterial infections by viruses. Urad has also been planted about fifteen,383 hectares with about 40 for every cent crop losses.

Farmer Vilas Tathod from Talegaon Wadner village in Telhara taluka in Akola reported that his moong crop planted about 3-acre farmland had been wholly ruined owing to assaults by a sucking pest, which in regional parlance is termed Bhendya. Related assaults have also been described on urad in the neighbouring villages. If a farmer pays great attention to his farm, then he can get about three hundred to 500 kg of moong for every acre. But the assault is so intense that not even five kg has been harvested. Regardless of four pesticide sprays the crop could not be saved, moreover the regional agriculture college at Akola city has no solutions to our problems, he reported.

Sucking pests are insects, which feed on the plant sap and in the course of action it also will make the plant vulnerable to mosaic virus assault.

Framer Lalait Bhale from Akoli Jahangir village in the vicinity of Akot town in Akola district reported that this calendar year rainfall has been continuous and without having a break. The rains produced the underdeveloped village roadways with encompassing black cotton soil extremely slimy and just about unattainable to drive. In these types of ailments, the farmers could not arrive at their fields and even harvest the crops, which produced the crops further more vulnerable to the assaults.

A government formal reported the farmers could not access their fields owing to drinking water inundation ensuing in crop hurt. Pests are voracious eaters and to command them the pesticide sprays must be produced on time. This Kharif period moong and urad are just about composed off in Vidarbha and only toor dal, which is a for a longer time gestation crop is being saved.