After Fall Armyworm, corn crop in Maharashtra faces Leaf Blight attack

The corn crop in Maharashtra, after facing the Slide Armyworm attack in rabi period, is now facing renewed assaults of Northern Leaf Blight and Physoderma brown place fungus.

The spread of the diseases is just about over a person lakh hectares all over Aurangabad, which has obtained the farmers worried.

The onset of Northern Leaf Blight (NLB) is a bit additional critical. Mounting humidity accompanied by intermittent rains in the Aurangabad location is the result in. Because of to the outbreak of NLB, the leaves of the corn crop have turned mainly yellow and dry, affecting their advancement.

Farmer Dhananjay Dhorade from Tolegaon village in Vaijapur taluka in Aurangabad district mentioned that irregular rains is the major explanation for the attack. If it rains contentiously, then the attack is pretty confined. Having said that, absence of rains for a more time period of time would lead to a renewed attack and the standing crop will be badly afflicted with produce losses, he mentioned.

Dhorade, who has planted corn over twelve acres, mentioned that in Maharashtra the cultivation of corn in the existing kharif period is considerably higher than the rabi period.

A Condition Agriculture Officer mentioned that farmers are finding determined to halt the spread of these diseases. They are making an attempt whichever pesticide and fungicide available with the regional agrochemical retailers. If the Northern Leaf Blight infestation goes deeper from the outer leaves to the central stem, then conserving the crop would come to be extremely hard, the official mentioned.

Corn has several works by using which include cooking oil but its major purchaser is the poultry sector wherever it is utilised as a feed for the birds.