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- The South Asia Biotechnology Centre (SABC), in collaboration with Agrovision Foundation, Nagpur, has launched an innovative and multi-stakeholder ‘Project Bandhan’ to protect cotton growers from the devastating pink bollworm.
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Jul 1, 2022 · This Kharif, SABC is running a large-scale project called ‘Project Bandhan’ to stop the spread of PBW in 16 districts of seven major cotton-growing States. Depending on the use of chemical spray PBW has become a major pest that hurts almost 12 million hectares of cotton in India every year.
- New Hybrid Seeds Launch
- Pre-Empting Emergence of Pink Bollworm
- Pheromone-Based Technology
As part of the launching ceremony, Project Bandhan has distributed high-quality Bt cotton hybrid seeds & IPM based POP in four clusters to 500 smallholder farmers of village Adasa/Waroda of Nagpur on Wednesday. The outbreak of pink bollworm had hit cotton growers hard in Maharashtra in Kharif during 2020-21. There has been a noticeable increase in ...
“We could pre-empt the emergence of Pink Bollworm in cotton as we began to address its sporadic occurrence in Bt cotton-growing areas of Gujarat and Maharashtra as early as 2015. Contrary to the American Bollworm, we knew that pink bollworm can be easily managed with proper agronomy, the time of sowing and effective pest control measures. We succes...
The Central Insecticide Board and Registration Committee (CIBRC) had approved the pheromone-based mating disruption technology in the IPM strategies for controlling the population of PBW in India for the first time in 2019-20. Available in the solid metric dispenser rope (PB Knot), it can be easily tagged to the cotton plant. It releases sex pherom...
Raksha Bandhan [3] is a popular and traditionally Hindu annual rite or ceremony that is central to a festival of the same name celebrated in South Asia. It is also celebrated in other parts of the world significantly influenced by Hindu culture.
Jul 31, 2021 · Project Bandhan is a unique program dedicated to showcase the utility, efficacy of novel mating disruption technology and IPM based production system,” stated Dr Ramasami, Chairman of Rasi Seeds Pvt Ltd.
Jun 9, 2021 · A multi-stakeholder “PROJECT BANDHAN: A Knot of PBW Protection” to embrace the cutting-edge innovation by tagging PB Knot to protect the cotton plant from devastating Pink Bollworm – an analogous to the magic of tying a ‘rakhi’ on Raksha Bandhan.
Jun 30, 2022 · As the pink bollworm infestation spreads in cotton plants in North India, stakeholders including the Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR), State agricultural universities and private...
Jul 1, 2022 · The pink bollworm is native to Asia, but has become an invasive species in most of the world’s cotton-growing regions. The female moth lays eggs in a cotton boll, and when the larvae emerge from the eggs, they inflict damage through feeding. Since cotton is used for both fiber and seed oil, the damage is twofold.
