PESTS DESTROY RABI PADDY CROP IN N’PADA GPS

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 |  | NUAPADA | in Bhubaneswar


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About 400 hectares of Rabi paddy crop in Saipala and Khairani gram panchayats of Nuapada district has been destroyed by pest attack.
Agriculture officials reveal that the pest is stem borer, which can destroy paddy crop at any stage of the plant from seedling to maturity. The pest feeds upon tillers and cause drying of the central tiller during vegetative stage and cause whiteheads at reproductive stage. The paddy fields now look pale and dead everywhere. The pests spread so fast that application of a variety of pesticides did not work, say villagers.
“It will be a loss of more than 2,000 tonnes of paddy worth about `3 crore,” says district president of BJP Krushak Morcha Sanjay Tiwari, who visited the damaged fields with other BJP members on Monday to assess the loss. The DDA and other agricultural staffs also visited the fields.
The area is irrigated by the Saipala irrigation dam and the farmers here use all types of improved farm technology to enhance production. Farmers say that they spend about `20,000 for cultivating paddy in an acre. “This year the expenditure exceeded `20,000 due to excessive use of pesticides,” they say.
A list of the affected farmers prepared by the farmers reveal that the pest attack has ruined the economy of more than 250 households.
A majority of farmers here belong to small and marginal categories who have taken loan from different sources to cultivate paddy. There are landless farmers too who cultivate lands of other farmers on sharecropping basis. “Some landless farmers own forestlands, but they are yet to get patta under FRA,” they say. It is learnt that these tiny landholders are the worst suffers in the pest attack as they will not get a single seed back from the land.
Farmers, who have obtained loans from banks and cooperative societies for the Rabi crop have paid premium for crop insurance.
“We are trying to assess the loss. However, as per eye estimate, 160 hectares have been affected. The loanee farmers are entitled for insurance coverage. Input subsidy can also be paid,” said the Nuapada Deputy Director of Agriculture (DDA).

“Farmers’ loss can be compensated to some extent by giving them input subsidy from the Natural Calamity Fund,” said Sanjay Tiwari. The Krushak Morcha submitted a memorandum to the district authorities on Tuesday urging for a detailed field survey. Jadumani Panigrahi, Sanjay Tiwari, Khamsing Majhi, Manijar Arya and many other BJP leaders met ADM Trilochan Minz and submitted the memorandum.

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