DHARMAPURI: An infestation of white grub worms has impacted sugarcane cultivation in Harur and Morappur. Farmers attributed the pest attack to poor rainfall and expressed fear that yield could ...

Crop producers earn the right to hate grubs’ guts. The pests prune root hairs on corn plants and can cause damage severe enough to require replanting. White grub larvae can also feed on soybean ...

When white grub infestations in brome fields become extreme, Zukoff said replanting to a different crop remains another viable solution.

White grub, a voracious agriculture pest, after wreaking havoc in the Vidarbha and Marathwada regions of Maharashtra has also affected about 3,000 acres of sugarcane crop in the Pune district.

While the lower output could reduce India's 10 million tonnes of sugar inventories, the grubs that feed on the roots of cane plants can only be eradicated by pulling out the crop, leaving the ...

Five major soil insects can be found in corn fields: seed corn maggot, white grubs, wireworms, cutworms and rootworms. Corn rootworm populations have increased in continuous corn production areas of ...

What's chewing on my corn crop? Could be cutworms, wireworms, or white grubs! May 23, 2010 May 23, 2010Updated Jun 24, 2019 0 ...

Aaria Biolife introduces a biological approach with Entomopathogenic microbes to combat white grub - one of the biggest menace impacting crop production ...

This is a topic that comes up every year, but this year I have seen more mole and grub damage than I can remember in previous years. The very common ...

But, an infestation of white grubs in Maharashtra, India's second-biggest sugar producing state, and neighbouring Karnataka, the third-largest producer, could mean sugar output for the 2018/19 crop ...

India may have found a fix to its sugar problem but the answer will not make its cane farmers happy. After a bumper crop, sugar stockpiles in the country, the world's second-largest producer of ...