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OUR PRESENT POSITION IN SOUTH INDIA WITH REGARD TO THE CONTROL OF PADDY PESTS

Volume : 15
Issue: Jul-jul
Pages: 258 - 262
Published: August 10, 2023
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Abstract


My predecessors in this short symposium have dealt with Paddy from the aspect of cultivation, breeding and nurture res- ectively. Paddy, as a living organism, is subject to the influences of its environment. Consequently it is liable to the attacks of erbivorous animals including insects and to infection by parasitic fungi. The losses sustained on the aggregate by the paddy crop, from insect pests and fungus diseases, are enormous and unless the crop can be protected from these injurious organisms, the work of improvement effected by the Breeder, the Agriculturist and the Chemist is liable to be greatly wasted or at least very nuch handicapped. It is the function of the Entomologist and the Mycologist to do what they can, to protect the crop from them and minimise the damage.

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258 - 262
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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