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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In Punjab and Haryana, Acres of Infestation Leave Cotton Farmers Devastated -Prabhjit Singh

In Punjab and Haryana, Acres of Infestation Leave Cotton Farmers Devastated -Prabhjit Singh

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published Published on Nov 1, 2021   modified Modified on Nov 2, 2021

-TheWire.in

The pink bollworm attack has left deaths by suicide in its wake. The authorities, farmers say, are late in even conducting preliminary surveys.

Mansa (Punjab)/Fatehabad (Haryana): There is silence in the cotton fields of Punjab and Haryana where farmers are uprooting plants after having sprayed multiple rounds of pesticides in vain.

The pink bollworm has ravaged cotton crops in the country’s north, mainly in the districts of Bathinda and Mansa in Punjab and Fatehabad, Sirsa and Hisar in Haryana.

In 2017, a similar devastation took place in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra that triggered the debate on the sustainability of genetically modified seeds for this ‘white gold’.

Many farmers have complained of up to 100% crop loss due to the pink bollworm attack. It has also furthered incidents of deaths by suicide among farmers in Punjab’s Malwa region (Mansa and Bathinda).

Gurpreet Singh, a 43-year-old farmer in Moosa village of Mansa district, on October 22 consumed pesticide tablets, commonly known as ‘sulphos’, after returning from his five-acre cotton field which was devastated by swarming armies of the pink worm. Apart from an institutional debt of Rs 3 lakh, he had taken a loan of Rs 4 lakh from moneylenders over the past several years to survive in farming as it is his family occupation.

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TheWire.in, 1 November, 2021, https://thewire.in/agriculture/in-punjab-and-haryana-acres-of-infestation-leave-cotton-farmers-devastated


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