Cotton Farmers Should Continue Pest Scouting By Mid-October

Cotton growers should conduct pest scouting of their crops twice in a week and continue this process by mid of October so that pest attacks could be controlled before its severity on cotton crops.

FAISALABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Sep, 2018 ) :Cotton growers should conduct pest scouting of their crops twice in a week and continue this process by mid of October so that pest attacks could be controlled before its severity on cotton crops.

A spokesman for the Agriculture Department on Wednesday said that after mid of October, severity of pest attack decreases, therefore, farmers should regularly conduct pest scouting to save their crops.

He also advised farmers to follow weather report on radio, television or other media before watering their crops.

He advised cotton growers to use urea and nitrogen fertilizers along with zinc sulphate and boric acid as per requirement of the crop to get bumper yield.