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News India Live, Digital Desk: The pain of the farmer: My farmer friends, You work hard day and night, sweat and rip the chest of the earth and grow food. But many times some uninvited enemies turn water on all your hard work. These enemies are small insects, which are modest, but the disadvantages are very big.
Come, let us know today about those 5 biggest enemies of your crop, which if identified on time, you can avoid big losses.
1. Locust: Sky
This worm does not come alone, but brings a herd of millions of crores. When it attacks a farm, it makes a green crop a ground in a few hours. It does not eat the crop, but makes it chopped. It is like a nightmare for any farmer.
2. Mahu or APHID: The ‘blood’ of the plant sucking a thief
These are small, green or black colored insects that stick under the leaves or on soft twigs. They keep sucking the juice of the plant (its blood), due to which the plant becomes weak, the leaves begin to turn and fall yellow. Its outbreak is very common in mustard, cotton and vegetables.
3. Whitefly (whitefly): small worm, big loss
This mosquito-looking small white fly also works to suck juice. But its danger is doubled. This juice also spreads viruses from one plant to another, which causes diseases in the crop.
4. Termite: Enemy inside the ground
It is a hidden enemy who attacks from inside the ground. You see that your green plant suddenly started drying up, but the reason does not understand. The termites eat the roots of the plant, which stops getting water and nutrition and dies. It does great harm in sugarcane, wheat and many other crops.
5. Pink Bollworm: Cotton period
Farmers who cultivate cotton, are well acquainted with this enemy. This small Sundi penetrates inside the cotton tinde and makes it hollow inside. Tinda looks fine from above, but cotton and seeds inside are ruined.
How to rescue?
The first step to avoid these enemies is – awarenessCircular your field daily. Look at the leaves from both the top and bottom. If you see any unusual change, immediately contact your nearest Agricultural Advisor or Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK). Your little caution can save your entire crop.