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States » NorthPosted at: Jul 25 2020 5:37PM


Maize farmers worried about Fall Armyworm pest

Hamirpur (HP), July 25(UNI) The department of agriculture has warned the farmers of the district about the of ''Fall Armyworm'' pest that attacks the Maize crops badly.
The pest is said to have traveled from the US to India along with the hybrid seeds, insiders in the department said on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the farmers have alleged that these insects have started cutting down their crops in areas adjacent to the Una district.
They said that the pest cut down small corn plants from the roots and drop them in the fields. Not only this, due to this pest as soon as the maize plant starts growing in the field, there are a lot of complaints about the pores in the stem and leaves of the plant and destruction of the plant due to a blotting on the leaves.
Maize is the main crop of the district and buyers from other parts of the country visit Hamirpur villages to purchase the Maize corns from here to make various sorts of products like Corn flakes and glucose for which Hamirpur based Maize is the most suited.
Jeet Singh Thakur, the Deputy Director of Agriculture said that in order to contain the newly seen pest, the department had intensified its activities and had started giving advice to the farmers how to contain it.
He has told the farmers to spray azadirachtin or chlorophyrus twenty percent by mixing it with the water and then to spray it on the crops to save them.
He has also appealed to the farmers to inform the department through its filed agencies if such pests were reported in their respective areas.
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War against COVID-19: MP’s grim body count rises to 1,048

13 Aug 2020 | 3:41 AM

Bhopal, Aug 12 (UNI) The fatality figure owing to the ‘millennium scourge’ mounted to 1,048 on Wednesday in Madhya Pradesh where 15 fresh demises were reported even as the infected tally touched 41,604 as 870 new sufferers were detected during analysis of 20,679 samples.
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MP CM’s condolences

13 Aug 2020 | 3:15 AM

Bhopal, Aug 12 (UNI) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan expressed grief on Wednesday over the demise of Congress spokesman Rajiv Tyagi.
“The news numbed and saddened me. I pray for peace to the departed soul and fortitude to the bereaved family for bearing this sorrow,” he conveyed via social media.

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Roadmap will be mantra for MP’s self-sufficiency: CM

13 Aug 2020 | 2:16 AM

Bhopal, Aug 12 (UNI) Comprehensive action will be executed in the spheres of education, health, transport, employment, potable water, tourism and infrastructure in Madhya Pradesh and this quantum of work will pave the way towards a self-reliant state, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan emphasised on Wednesday.
“On an extremely encouraging note, I wish to point out that national-level participation was witnessed during webinars conducted from August 7 to 11 and a substantial number of superior suggestions received from subject experts. In Madhya Pradesh’s interest, these crucial inputs are being included in the roadmap. Ministerial groups were constituted to prepare a draft of the plan. Reports to be submitted by these units shall be finalised subsequent to discussion with the National Institution for Transforming India Aayog,” the senior politician was officially quoted as saying.

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Bhopal, Aug 12 (UNI) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is scheduled to launch a Sahyog se Suraksha Abhiyan on Independence Day having the principal theme that only cooperation plus support can help us emerge victorious against the novel coronavirus and we should firmly resolve to scotch the contagion.
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