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It asked the farmers not to store the stalks of the cotton plant in the filed after harvest. It said the farmers should follow crop rotation and avoid ratoon crop for cotton.
It said that installing pheromone traps which uses particular chemicals which lure the insects at ginning mills. The insects thus collected could be killed by using any of the pesticides, as told. It also added that that pink bollworm, a common pest in cotton, could be got rid of by not allowing it to complete its life cycle by ensuring proper sanitation during ginning.
