Wednesday, 6 January 2016

PRO/PL> Stripe rust, wheat - India: (PB) alert

Other Plant Disease -- India
The state Agriculture Department has sounded an alert on yellow rust on the wheat crop [and] has told officers to constitute special surveillance teams.
Signs of yellow rust had been spotted in certain areas in Ropar [Rupnagar] [and] later at 2 different spots in Hoshiarpur districts.
Punjab Director of Agriculture Gurdial Singh said that the patches were not more than 2x2 meters, but as any further spread of the disease could mean losses for farmers, the department was keeping an eye on

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