After reports of pink bollworm infestation in the cotton crop in Bathinda district, the Punjab agriculture department has deployed its senior officials to camp in the cotton belt and cancelled their ...

If there was one phrase to sum up farming in Arkansas at the start of summer, it would be “keep scouting.” Surveillance done by Cooperative Extension Service county agents around the state has found ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) - The Board of Supervisors tomorrow is slated to approve the Riverside County Office of Agriculture Commissioner's proposed contract with the state to monitor programs ...

In the fall of 1917, on a cotton farm in Hearne, Texas, entomologist Ivan Shiller documented the first pink bollworm sighting in the US. The insect, named for the characteristic pink color it develops ...

Bathinda: The agriculture department has found larvae of pink bollworm in the empty bolls discarded and buried in the ground by a cotton ginning factory. The department officials during a visit on ...

Texas A&M AgriLife entomologists are advising producers about the possible arrival of a potential major new pest of field crops and vegetables in the U.S. if its ominous track-record in other ...

THE cotton crop is hit by many pests but pink bollworm is its worst enemy which not only causes loss to crop but also affects the lint quality. The economic loss it inflicts is heavier than the impact ...

Vijayawada: The Centre has acknowledged that the pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella), known as gulabi rangu purugu in Telugu, has developed resistance to Bt cotton, the genetically modified crop ...

Cotton is the single largest cash crop of Pakistan. In Sindh cultivation of cotton started before the opening of the Sukkur barrage. During the pre-barrage period up to the year 1932 the cultivation ...

Mutating bugs that resist transgenic toxins! It’s the kind of news that makes Greenpeace activists shout “I told you so” and gives Monsanto scientists sleepless nights: Entomologists at the University ...

Sirsa: Haryana agriculture department officials have confirmed a pink bollworm outbreak on cotton crop in the fields of Sirsa district adjoining Punjab. Officials have advised farmers to take ...