Farmers have been advised to avoid excess nitrogen by restricted usage of urea, ammonium chloride and DAP to control blast disease in paddy crop.

Considering the prevalence of blast disease (or rice blast) in paddy crops in Thanjavur and Tiruvarur districts, Agriculture Department officials have cautioned the farmers in Madurai district to ...

Though the area under paddy in Telangana has gone up by 100 per cent to 27 lakh acres, the virulent pest ‘rice blast’ and stem borer and rice whorl maggot attacks on the crop may cause yield ...

Ghanashyam is not alone in this village having faced loss due to blast attack. There are many others. ParamanandMajhi has lost paddy in 2.4 acres.