Chandigarh: Minister of Collaboration of Punjab Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Wednesday asked Deputy Commissioner of Gurdaspur and Jalandhar to immediately conduct a survey to assess the damage that might occur in the sugar cane plant infected with red rib fungus and spread further deployment.
Randhawa also asked the cooperation department to prepare a press report for Perusal Minister of Chief who also held an agricultural portfolio, to determine the effective action plan through the participation of the Department of Cooperation, Agriculture and Horticulture, Sugarcane Commissioner in Coordination Close with Punjab Agriculture University (PAU), Ludhiana, Ludhiana and the sugar cane breading institute, a regional center in Karnal.
Leading a meeting to review the current situation arises after the outbreak of this disease, the Minister of Cooperation directs the deputy commissioner to find out how and ways to fight the disease in the main priority so that it can save this critical mesh when destroying the season will likely start from November and reduce further deployment This disease in the coming years.
The Cabinet Minister also emphasized the need to intensify research to explore the factors that caused sudden attacks by fungi in various sugarcane identification of hotspots to overcome disease effectively, in addition to creating awareness between them through counseling services to provide significant information about symptoms and management.
S K Pandey, Principal Scientist and Breading Institute’s Head, Regional Center in Karnal, who joined the meeting through video conferencing that was informed that this disease had affected sugar cane plants in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana in the past due to problems with water logging.
However, he said intensive research in this matter revealed that CO 0238 various sugar cane was mainly vulnerable to these fungus and farmers in these countries suffering substantial losses were told not to grow these varieties in the future.
Community Cooperative Registrar Vikas Garg said Sugarfed had made a joint effort to ensure the quality of sugar cane production to increase his recovery and therefore 20 lakh single bud shiping from free high-quality diseases is ready to be distributed for sugar cane planting during autumn during the fall.
(September and October).