Ecologically based rodent management can help control pests in rural India
Full community engagement, reducing access to food and shelter and direct killing is the best way to manage rodent populations
Genetically modified cowpea clears its first hurdle in Ghana, but there’s a long way to go
GM crops represent a potentially important tool for the country’s food security strategy
Scientists characterise a natural pathogenic fungi to help save eucalyptus forests from devastating pest
Eucalyptus snout beetle can cause great damage, but fungi could be used to develop a bio-pesticide for sustainable forestry
Aphid, thrips threaten vegetable crops, pulses as February temperatures soar across north India
Ideal weather conditions for pest attacks unusually early in the year
Climate change may cause up to 38% decline of low & mid latitude deodar trees
Droughts and heat stress may also cause infestation in trees, research notes
Quelea: Environmentalists protest Kenyan government’s move to poison millions of ‘feathered locusts’
Experts champion mechanical control of the birds & other alternative methods like monitoring their breeding & migratory patterns, …
Earwigs are the hero single mothers of the insect world – and good for your garden too
They are nature’s pest controllers
Call to action: Pest control actors should join hands to curtail harmful impact of rodents on India’s food production
Ecologically based rodent management has great opportunity to be adopted in the states of Madhya Pradesh & Jharkhand
SC directs Centre to submit status report on ban of pesticides
These pesticides have been banned in other countries; but in India, they are being allowed to use & could pose serious health hazards to farmers
Cotton Curse: Pheromone-based mating disruption technology may help control pink bollworm
Experiments show 90% reduction in losses, improved yield
Cotton Curse: Damage by pink bollworm to Bt Cotton worst in two decades
Farmers say damage by pink bollworm worse than American bollworm for which the Bt Cotton hybrid was created
For Rajasthan farmers, pest attacks mean loss of income, debt burden
Frequency of attacks, increased due to climate change, is severely affecting the yield and meteorically escalating production costs
Warm temperatures for prolonged periods may have led to massive pest attack in Assam
28,000 hectares of paddy crop in 15 districts destroyed by armyworm
Cotton Curse: Bt Cotton losses by pink bollworm pushing farmers to brink of suicide
Part 1: Recurring losses due to pests in North India compounding farmers’ distress, finds DTE ground report
‘Grains not stored properly in FCI godown, rotting food creating pest hazard’
NGT orders probe into biological hazard at Punjab storage, forms joint panel
Farmers responses over pesticide-use effects cannot be considered scientific, petitioners tell SC
Petitioners request Supreme Court to review and consider banning of 135 more pesticides banned outside India
To protect India’s bees, we need to understand their impact on agricultural practices
Farmers worry about effect of genetically modified crops on honey bees
Warming temperatures increasing pest attacks, reducing yield, claim Rajasthan farmers
New and wider infestations by pests causing mass destruction of harvest
Cotton Curse: Tired of losses, farmers giving up cotton on a large scale
The production of cotton in Punjab has almost halved in the past decade
Cotton Curse: How pink bollworm developed resistance to Bt Cotton
Entomologists say early and late sowing, long-duration crops and not planting other varieties against advice may have contributed to resistance …
Cotton Curse: No buyers for salvaged produce after pink bollworm wreaks havoc
Labourers refuse to pick leftover crop as yield too low and traders refuse to buy citing poor quality
Ban on pesticides: Plea in Supreme Court alleges restriction on reduced number of chemicals to protect companies
Next hearing on April 28; SC seeks reasons for the decision from Centre
Scientists write to PM against ICAR ‘gag order’ on GM mustard
Health and safety of crops draw concern from scientific community