Agriculture Ministry Issues Directives To Check Adverse Affect Of White Fly On Cotton

The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Mr. Radha Mohan Singh addressing the National Symposium on Organic Farming for Farmers’ Prosperity. (File Photo)

Directives Issued To Punjab, Rajasthan And Haryana

New Delhi (PIB-GR-TYP-BIN): Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ministry has issued extensive directives to the States producing cotton to check the adverse affect of white fly on cotton. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has given these directives in view the likely menace to the crop of cotton in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan from white fly. White fly had inflicted tremendous damage to cotton last year in Punjab and Haryana.

(Source: PIB/GR/TYP/BIN/USPA/WN/IAIJ)