Light traps to control pests
Friday, 29 October 2010
Our Correspondent
RAJSHAHI, Oct28: Farmers in Durgapur Upazila under Rajshahi district are being benefitted greatly by using light traps to control pests in their crop fields and thus reducing the use of pesticides. A common form of electric or kerosene light put on a pot filled with soap-mixed water is being effectively used to control flying insects in paddy fields.
The use of light trap is benefitting the farmers in two ways- it is saving money from purchasing toxic pesticides and it is also saving environmental degradation.
According to sources of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE),
during the current season, farmers of Durgapur upazila have cultivated Transplanted Aman (TPA) on 25,400 hectares of land. Farmers are using light traps in more than 10,000 hectares of those fields to control insects. Among the insects, "current bug" a virulent form of insect is also being trapped by this light trap.
Officials of DAE in Durgapur informed, one light trap can protect crops of at least 10 Bighas of land.
Abdus Salam, Asaduzzaman, Hanif and Razzak, farmers of Alipur village of the upazila informed, they are benefited greatly by using light traps in their fields.
They informed, such an easy process of controlling flying insects from the crop fields was not known to them earlier but the officials of DAE have apprised them of the novel process to control the insects and to save their fields from being attacked by pests.
RAJSHAHI, Oct28: Farmers in Durgapur Upazila under Rajshahi district are being benefitted greatly by using light traps to control pests in their crop fields and thus reducing the use of pesticides. A common form of electric or kerosene light put on a pot filled with soap-mixed water is being effectively used to control flying insects in paddy fields.
The use of light trap is benefitting the farmers in two ways- it is saving money from purchasing toxic pesticides and it is also saving environmental degradation.
According to sources of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE),
during the current season, farmers of Durgapur upazila have cultivated Transplanted Aman (TPA) on 25,400 hectares of land. Farmers are using light traps in more than 10,000 hectares of those fields to control insects. Among the insects, "current bug" a virulent form of insect is also being trapped by this light trap.
Officials of DAE in Durgapur informed, one light trap can protect crops of at least 10 Bighas of land.
Abdus Salam, Asaduzzaman, Hanif and Razzak, farmers of Alipur village of the upazila informed, they are benefited greatly by using light traps in their fields.
They informed, such an easy process of controlling flying insects from the crop fields was not known to them earlier but the officials of DAE have apprised them of the novel process to control the insects and to save their fields from being attacked by pests.