The agriculture department officials have claimed that with the dip in temperature, the impact of pink stem borer on wheat crop has reduced. The unexpected pest attack had caused widespread ...

Farmers from Patiala, Barnala, Mansa, Bathinda, Sangrur and other Malwa districts have reported “pink stem borer” infestation in their fields, adding that they had to re-sow wheat because of this.

“Pink bollworm is a monophagous pest, which can multiply only on cotton and no other host crop. Whereas pink stem borer or sesamia inferens is found in rice crop and this time it has moved to wheat.

Experts say the infestation of pink borer in wheat is not common but the main rabi crop was found infested in several areas of the Malwa belt.

Stem borer pest contributes up to 40 percent loss of cereal harvest to farmers, especially maize. Both the large grain borer and the spotted stem borer are highly destructive, more-so in Sub ...

The pink stem borer infested the fields where the traditional practice of burning paddy stubble was avoided, the farmers had alleged.

Farmers from Patiala, Barnala, Mansa, Bathinda, Sangrur and other Malwa districts have reported “pink stem borer” infestation in their fields, adding that they had to re-sow wheat because of this ...

Experts say the infestation of pink borer in wheat is not common but the main rabi crop was found infested in several areas of the Malwa belt.