Pest attacks: Experts give advice to maize growers

MULTAN: Agriculture experts have advised farmers to take steps to save the spring maize crop from pest attack in order to result in a better produce. In a release issued by the Punjab Agriculture Department on Tuesday, experts said termites attack roots and trunks of maize plants and leave them dry. They added that flies eat flowers while pests draw juice from leaves, leaving white spots and fungi on them, affecting the process of photosynthesis. These pests also damage pollen and produce maize cobs having lesser number of granules. American bollworms eat soft leaf and grains of fruits. Armyworms attack crop in the form of groups and bigger worms also eat silk from the cobs and halts the grain-formation process.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 1^st,  2015.

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