Discussions were held on proper identification, monitoring, surveillance and timely management of the pest
A field day on ’Control of fall armyworm in maize’ was recently organised in kandi area of Punjab by Farm Advisory Service Centre, Gangian, Hoshiarpur under the aegis of The Director of Extension Education Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana in village Lalota (Talwara). The field day was aimed to make farmers aware of the fall armyworm in maize and to address the problems of the farmers related to field and horticulture crops.
On this occasion, Dr Rakesh Kumar Sharma, DES (Entomology) extended a warm welcome to the participating farmers and officials and guided the farmers regarding the incidence of fall armyworm on maize. He further motivated the farmers for proper identification, monitoring, surveillance and timely management of this pest.
Dr Indira Devi, DES (Horticulture) advised the farmers to adopt a kitchen and nutritional garden for nutritional security. She also guided the farmers in the growing of vegetable kits for the fulfilment of household requirements of vegetables rather than purchasing vegetables from the market.
Dr Vinay Kumar, ADO, Talwara threw light on different schemes provided by the department for the welfare of the farmers and advised the farmers to increase their area under Maize.
In the end, Dr Rakesh Kumar Sharma, DES (Entomolgy) thanked all the experts for delivering informative lectures and farmers for listening attentively to the proceedings of this field day and assured all support for carrying out various extension activities in the future. A thorough question-answer session was held in which farmers raised the various queries and scientists made the reply. On this occasion, vegetable kits and the berseem seed was sold to farmers.
