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 top to main crop losses.

Vidarbha is located in jap Maharashtra, and it borders Madhya Pradesh in the north and Chhattisgarh in the east.

In Akola district alone nearly ninety per cent of the moong (eco-friendly gram) crop planted about 21,989 hectares have been lost owing to assaults by sucking pests and plant viruses. The sucking pests bore holes in the plant, which would make it vulnerable to secondary infections by viruses. Urad has also been planted about 15,383 hectares with about forty per cent crop losses.

Farmer Vilas Tathod from Talegaon Wadner village in Telhara taluka in Akola said that his moong crop planted about a few-acre farmland had been wholly ruined owing to assaults by a sucking pest, which in local parlance is termed Bhendya. Very similar assaults have also been claimed on urad in the neighbouring villages. If a farmer pays great focus to his farm, then he can get about three hundred to five hundred kg of moong per acre. But the assault is so critical that not even 5 kg has been harvested. Despite 4 pesticide sprays the crop could not be saved, plus the local agriculture university at Akola town has no responses to our challenges, he said.

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

Framer Lalait Bhale from Akoli Jahangir village around Akot city in Akola district said that this 12 months rainfall has been continual and without having a crack. The rains made the underdeveloped village streets with bordering black cotton soil quite slimy and nearly unachievable to generate. In these types of situations, the farmers could not attain their fields and even harvest the crops, which made the crops additional vulnerable to the assaults.

A govt official said the farmers could not entry their fields owing to water inundation ensuing in crop harm. Pests are voracious eaters and to management them the pesticide sprays should really be made on time. This Kharif time moong and urad are nearly published off in Vidarbha and only toor dal, which is a for a longer period gestation crop is becoming saved.