Farmers asked to adopt off-season cotton management strategy.

FAISALABAD -- The agriculture department has asked farmers to adopt off-season cotton management strategy to save the next crop from the attack of Gulabi Sundi (pink bollworm). A spokesman for the agriculture department says that pink bollworm goes in winter nap during November and December and its eggs remain present on cotton seeds, branches and dried leafs in farms and ginning factories when they get sufficient temperature after winter, they again become active. He said cotton growers should act upon the off-season management to save next crops from attack of pink bollworm. He...