MULTAN: The growers have been advised to use techniques including animal grazing as pink bollworm have attacked silver fibre in different cotton growing districts.
In winter season, pink bollworm resides inside the middle of two seeds joined with each other, inside open bolls in the field after picking or in the trash lying at ginning factories, according to a release issued by the extension and pest warning wings of Punjab Agriculture Department.
Pink bollworm has no host other than cotton and introduction of new cotton varieties and changes in its cultivation tendencies have enhanced manifold the importance of tackling pink bollworm properly.
Experts recommended that after last picking farmers should leave animals inside the cotton fields to enable them eat each remaining cotton boll to kill the bollworm inside.
Farmers should break the unripe cotton bolls and destroy them. The cotton sticks should be cut from six inch deep inside the soil to prevent them from growth in spring season.
The process of cutting remaining cotton sticks and their destruction should be completed on or before Jan 31.
