{"id":116141,"date":"2020-04-27T02:50:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T21:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=116141"},"modified":"2020-04-27T02:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T21:20:33","slug":"pest-attack-causing-heavy-losses-to-tea-planters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/pest-attack-causing-heavy-losses-to-tea-planters\/","title":{"rendered":"Pest attack causing heavy losses to tea planters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pest-attack-causing-heavy-losses-to-tea-planters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-116154 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Pest-attack-causing-heavy-losses-to-tea-planters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a>[ Prafulla Kaman ]<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>RUKSIN, Apr 26:<\/strong> Tea planters in the Siang valley, including East Siang and Lower Siang districts in Arunachal and Jonai in Assam, who have been suffering heavy losses due to the Covid-19 lockdown, are now hit by a wave of pest attack.<br \/>\nSwarms of a tiny insect called the red spider mite (Oligonychus coffeae) have been creating havoc in the tea gardens of the region for a month now, causing major damage to the crops during the peak season.<br \/>\nPest attacks have been reported from Donyi Polo Tea Estate and other tea gardens in Oyan, Kemi-Jelom, Ruksin, Nari-Seren, Telam and Dekapam, and adjoining areas in Assam.<br \/>\n&#8220;Unavailability of pesticides due to the prevailing situation in the country is causing problem to the farmers in controlling the pest attack,&#8221; said Diite Tea Estate (Linka) manager Kaling Moyong.<br \/>\n&#8220;Earlier, we used to manage red spider mites using organic preparation or recommended chemical pesticides. But due to the prevailing situation, the farmers are not able to find any pesticide,&#8221; Moyong said.<br \/>\nAccording to scientists, red spider mites are garden pests and are found everywhere on plants, including tea crops, throughout the year.<br \/>\nA tea farmer of Oyan village, Bimol Lego, also said they are left with no option but to witness the destruction helplessly due to unavailability of pesticides.<br \/>\nReportedly, a seed and pesticide trader in Ruksin town has managed to bring pesticides, which has brought some relief to the tea growers.<br \/>\nThe tea planters of the region fear that if the pest attack is not brought under control at the earliest, the tea industry in the state may suffer a heavy loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Prafulla Kaman ] RUKSIN, Apr 26: Tea planters in the Siang valley, including East Siang and Lower Siang districts in Arunachal and Jonai in Assam, who have been suffering heavy losses due to the Covid-19 lockdown, are now hit by a wave of pest attack. Swarms of a tiny insect called the red spider [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-116141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}