Crop Name: Wheat
Disease Name : Efid
- This pest can damage the crop from germination to ear emergence.
- Infection may be higher during the winter season.
- It transmits viral, bacterial, and fungal diseases and sucks the plant sap.
- It affects the quality of the crop.
- It can reduce yield by approximately 40 percent.
- Mealybug is a type of sucking pest that extracts nutrients from the leaves.
- Mealybug infestation primarily affects the lower parts of the leaves.
- Infested plants show yellowing of leaves.
- Damage by the pest is comparatively higher during cold or cloudy weather.
- Apply chemicals in balanced quantities and follow proper scientific advice.
- Use improved resistant seed varieties.
