Continuous pest attack worries farmers
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 26 2020:
Farmers of Seijang Loukon under Lamlai Assembly Constituency are having a hard time as a pest attack which was reported few weeks ago is now getting more severe even after using the pesticides provided by the Agriculture Department.
According to Seijang Development Committee secretary L Sobha Singh, a team of the State Agriculture Department had visited the fields a few weeks ago and provided pesticides to the farmers.
However even after using the pesticides, the attack continues and the damages caused to the crops is getting more severe.
He said farmers are very worried and also most of the people in Seijang are farmers who depend on farming as their sole source of income.
He appealed to the Government to look into the matter at the earliest.