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Pink bollworm causes loss of 1m cotton bales annually
National
February 14, 2021
FAISALABAD: Farmers should adopt proper management strategy against pink bollworm as the insect causes a loss of more than 1 million cotton bales every year.
This was stated by Deputy Director Agriculture (Extension) Chaudhry Khalid Mehmood while addressing an agriculture seminar at Jaranwala. He said that the Agriculture Department had started creating awareness among farmers about attack of pink bollworm on the cotton crop. He said the pink bollworm goes into winter nap during November and December and its eggs remain present on cotton seeds, branches and dried leafs in farms and ginning factories. When they get sufficient temperature after winter, they again become active, he told. He said that cotton growers should act upon the advice of agricultural experts and avoid cultivating cotton crop before April 1 to save it from attack of pink bollworm. He said that the Agriculture Department awarenes
Background: Driven by women, anti-CAA Shaheen Bagh agitation lasted months
In December 2019, protesters, mainly women, staged a sit-in agitation at the busy Shaheen Bagh locality to raise an objection against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which sought to provide Indian citizenship to non-Muslims from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.
The round-the-clock agitation ended only in March after coronavirus hit the nation.
In the meantime, pleas, speaking about the public inconvenience, were filed in SC.
Verdict
Not acceptable: SC didn t favor such protests
In October, as it passed a verdict on the larger issue of protests, the top court said, These sorts of protests (like Shaheen Bagh) are not acceptable and authorities should act.they must keep such spaces free from obstruction.