The Punjab Agriculture Department (PAD) has advised the cotton growers to use PB Ropes to save the cash crop of cotton from the attack of pink bollworm and enhance per acre yield. A departmental spokesman said here on Monday that 100 percent area under cotton cultivation affects from the pink bollworm which not only decrease cotton production by 30 percent but also affect the quality.
The government is setting up demonstration plots of 50 acre each in every Tehsil of the Punjab province in collaboration with the farmers to exhibit tackling of pink bollworm through PB Ropes.