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Pest attack affects Aman paddy yield in Netrakona, Patuakhali

Star National Desk
Paddy production target may fall short of target in Netrakona and Patuakhali districts this season due to massive pest attack on a vast tract of land of Aman crop.
Aman crop on thousands of hectares of land in all 10 upazilas in the district have been damaged following major attack of pamri and leaf-folder pests, reports our Netrakona Correspondent.
Non-availability of right kind of insecticides in markets has aggravated the situation.
Five upazilas are the worst-affected areas. Those are Netrakona Sadar, Kendua, Atpara, Barhatta and Purbadhala upazilas where Aman crop on 40,000 hectares of land has been damaged, sources in of Agriculture Extension Department (AED) said. Pests like pamri and leaf-folder are cutting roots and leafs of paddy plants.
When contacted, a AED official said tljey already informed theauthori -ties concerned to supply insecticides on emergency basis. They also advised formers to spray pesticides which are available in the markets.
During a visit to different affected areas, this correspondent talked to the farmers. Most of them blamed on DAE for failure to supply insecticides to them.
Md Shahjahan Mia, farmer of
Sharmushia village in Atpara upazila said he had applied different brands of locally available insecticides on his lands but to no effect because of their inferior quality.
Affected farmers also blamed three times flash flood in a year for the pest-attack which crippled them economically. They apprehended that nearly 50 per cent of Aman crop might be damaged if pest attack is not contained.
As many as 2,26,000 hectares of land have been brought under Aman cultivation in the district this season with a target to produce 4,52,947 metric tonnes of paddy, DAE sources said.
When contacted, the deputy director of DAE here M 1 Aminul Islam said want of rain is the main cause of pest attack. He said, block supervisors and others officials of the department are visiting the affected areas regularly and advising farmers to do the needful.
Our Patuakhali Correspondent reports: Pests have invaded Aman crop on vast areas of shoals in the district threatening the paddy production target.
At least, 25,000 hectares of paddy fields have been attacked in Patuakhali Sadar, Galachipa and Kalapara upazilas. The most worst-affected area is Galachipa where at least 15,000 hectares of paddy fields
have been attacked by pests like majra, leaf folding and ch ungi warms.
The pests are spreading fast from one field to another worsening the situation in last two weeks.
At least 15,000 hectares of paddy fields of five shoals have been attacked by majra pest in Galachipa upazila.
Over 10,000 hactarcs of paddy fields in Kalapara upazila have come under pest attack.
Local farmers are said to have applied insecticides bought from
local markets but they yielded no good result.
However, AED here identified that only 1,103 hectares of Aman fields had been attacked by pests. Of those, majra attacked on 651 hectares, leaf folding on 190 hectares, chungi on 102 hectares and bacteria leaf blight on 160 hectares, AE D said.
When contacted, the deputy director of AED here said they advised farmers to use 'Fizecide' insecticide for a remedy.