Pest warning and quality control wing of the Punjab Agriculture Department (PAD) in a report has directed the cotton growers to keep the area of spring crops free of white-fly and do not sow such crops and vegetables around the cotton fields, which are attractive for white-fly and Cotton Leaf Curl Virus (CLCV).
The report also advised the growers to spray only IGR's for control of white-fly on sprint crops. It has also been advised to clean watercourses and other areas from all weeds so as these could not be host to white-fly. The agriculture department has also advised the growers that all weeds should be eradicated at early stage as later on it become very difficult to clean area of these weeds.
The report further advised the growers that plants affected due to mealy bug should be eradicated from roots and wasted very carefully. Spray to control mealy bug should be conducted in consultation with the local experts of the Agriculture Department to make it effective and inexpensive, the report further advised.
Meanwhile, the Punjab Agriculture Minister Malik Ahmad Ali Aulakh while talking to a delegation of the growers to take full benefit of agricultural loans being offered under one-window operations for Khareef crops and purchase of agricultural inputs. He said that owners of 25 acres of irrigated land and 50 acres barani areas could get loans on pass book under the Zarai Tarqiati Bank's programme.
He stated that mobile credit officers of the Bank would receive loan applications from growers on every Monday at Center level and the Bank would be bound to release loan within three days. The Minister said that growers should take benefit of development projects started by the government to get the production target of Khareef crops and increasing the per acre yield for self-reliance in agricultural sector and improving their own income. Aulakh stated that development of agricultural sector was the foremost priority of the present government and it was providing tractors and other agricultural implements to the growers for progress.
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