Recently, while I was in Azamgarh at my home village I was reported about several things including migration of villagers to cities, deserted villages, and bad conditions of agriculture.
One of my relations there told me that besides drought they were suffering from a new problem with paddy crop and the problem was shown by him after we reached to his paddy field.
The leaves were rolled and white streaks appeared on them. After picking out a leaf he showed me the eggs of insect arranged linearly inside the rolled leaf. It not attended in time the problem may cause serious downfall in the paddy production.
I advised the man to consult immediately to the block office and to take important advice from there so as to check any further spread of the problem.
The problem is caused by leaf roller fly which lays eggs inside the tubular leaf, and the leaf is made tubular by rolling the same with the help of a highly sticky silken thread that is produced by the fly itself.
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