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Jind’s cotton fields show how war on whitefly can be won [1]

At a time when whitefly attack has sparked farmer suicides in Punjab and Haryana, nearly 250 farmers of Jind district expect bumper cotton crop and that, too, without using pesticides.

Publication Date: 
12/10/2015
Tribune (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Haryana [3], Jind (D) [4], Cotton [5], Farmers [6], Insects [7], Agricultural Systems [8]
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