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Cotton whitefly attack on the rise, farmers should follow directions of Agriculture Department, Director of Agriculture

Faisalabad (94 news) Director of Agriculture Chaudhry Khalid Mehmood has said that the attack of whitefly on cotton is increasing nowadays, for effective control of which the farmers should follow the useful instructions. The life span of whitefly becomes very short in July and August due to high temperature and humidity, so the attack keeps on happening again and again. Our farmers decide to spray most of the adults in the whitefly spray, which is very wrong because the damage is 80 Percentage children do. He said that when spraying, it is necessary to spray the poisons that kill whitefly babies from the beginning. Now it is important for every farmer to know which spray kills babies and which adults. Sprays that are effective only on adult bees. He said that acetamiprid, thiocycline hydrogen oxalate, imidaclopardclothinadine, flunicamid bifenthrin spray which kills babies and eggs. Biprofezin, DA or fenthioran spirotetramat, Flunicamid kill the last three adults also while recently various national and multinational companies are also marketing poisons with modern chemistry whose control is very encouraging in the field such as pyrifluquinazone and flupyradifuran which also affect whitefly larvae equally with adults.

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