白粉虱侵袭旁遮普的棉花作物
Whitefly attacks cotton crop in Punjab
The cotton belt in Punjab's stands threatened by whitefly attack with the dreaded pest detected in as many as 15 villages in Abohar region and farmers have been advised to spray recommended chemicals to save the crop.
The attack of whitefly on cotton crop, which is now in the flowering stage, is visible in about 15 villages of Khuian Sarwar block of Abohar in Fazilka district, an official of Punjab Agriculture department said a day after the state's Additional Chief Secretary N S Kalsi inspected the affected areas on Sunday.
Noting that the economic threshold limit in the current whitefly attack had exceeded six per leaf, the official said that growers had been asked to spray recommended chemicals to kill the pest.
The stage of using 'neem-based bio-pesticides' is over and it was necessary to use chemical based insecticides, he added.
Meanwhile, farmers are being given demonstrations and advised on the type of insecticides to be used in cotton fields to save the crop from being destroyed for the second successive year.
Last year whitefly attack had caused widespread damage to Bt cotton varieties in
译文如下：
白粉虱侵袭旁遮普的棉花作物
旁遮普棉花带受到白粉虱攻击的威胁，阿博赫尔地区15个村庄亿检测出可怕的害虫，建议农民喷洒推荐的化学药品来拯救农作物。
白粉虱对棉花作物的攻击目前在开花阶段,在法齐尔卡县阿博赫尔街区Khuian Sarwar大约15个村庄可见,旁遮普农业部的一位官员在部长秘书N S Kalsi周日视察灾区后的一天说。
他指出当下白粉虱攻击的经济界限已经超过每片叶子6个,官方说,种植者被要求喷洒推荐的化学药品来杀死害虫。
使用印楝的生物预防阶段已经结束,现在有必要使用化学杀虫剂,他补充说。
与此同时,农民们被要求把示范和建议类型的杀虫剂用于棉花田来拯救连续第二年被毁的农作物。
去年，白粉虱的攻击对旁遮普和哈里亚纳邦的Bt棉造成了普遍破坏。仅在旁遮普,上季45万公顷的棉花面积众有13.