Other Plant Disease — India
The state Agriculture Department has sounded an alert on yellow rust on the wheat crop [and] has told officers to constitute special surveillance teams.
Signs of yellow rust had been spotted in certain areas in Ropar [Rupnagar] [and] later at 2 different spots in Hoshiarpur districts.
Punjab Director of Agriculture Gurdial Singh said that the patches were not more than 2×2 meters, but as any further spread of the disease could mean losses for farmers, the department was keeping an eye on
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