Some Suggestions for Intensifying Plant Protection Work

Abstract

Seven years ago, when the Plant Protection Service was inaugurated in South India in 1949, there was a feeling of pessimism in the minds of the public with regard to its success. It was a time when the ryots were already fed up with methods of control like hand- picking, netting, pruning and the slow-acting pesticides like tobacco- decoction fish-oil soap etc. The introduction of quick-acting chemicals like, BHC, DDT, Zine phosphide and the intensive propaganda and demonstration of pest control operations organised by the Plant Protec- tion staff, dispelled this idea and the ryots are now convinced that Plant Protection service is quite indispensible for stepping up crop-production. Indeed, we have now reached a stage when our services are largely sought after and appreciated instead of our services being reluctantly accepted as before. The ryots have now become pesticide-minded and they are very particular in preventing the incidence of pests, rather than controlling them after their appearance.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.A04221

Pages

260 - 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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