Tag: Chakada

Sonepur: Locals detained the Tehsildar and RI who had gone to make an assessment of crops damaged by Chakada pest at Beheramal village in Dunguripali block of the district today. According to sources, Tehsildar of S.Rampur, Panchanan Patra and RI of Beheramal had gone to the village to make an assessment of paddy crops damaged […]

Bolangir: A four-member central team today visited several places in Bolangir district to take stock of the pest menace situation which has assumed serious proportions here. The visit assumes significance as farmers in several areas of the district are worried as their paddy crops have been damaged by brown plant-hoppers, a pest locally known as […]

Bhubaneswar/Sambalpur: After crops in over 1.10 lakh acres of farmland across the state were affected due to brown plant hoppers last year, farmers expected that the Odisha government would come up with plans to prevent such pest attack. However, it seems that the government has learnt nothing from the ‘Chakada (brown plant hopper)’ menace that […]

Sonepur: A young farmer hailing from Chulimal village under Bhandar Panchayat in Sonepur district has allegedly committed suicide over inability to repay his loans after suffering crop loss due to Chakada (Brown Planthopper) infestation. According to sources, one Mohan Kalata had sown Kharif paddy over 5 acres of land last season but his crops was […]

Bhubaneswar: For Odisha, it seems disaster management is limited to evacuation of people before any cyclone. Pest management triggered by unseasonal rainfall looks apparently a Greek to its lexicon of disaster management. When IMD made a forecast of unseasonal rains from October 23 – 25 in as many as 15 districts, the agriculture department is […]