OUR ALLY BUSY IN WAR AGAINST PESTS!
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
COTTON DUSKY BUG - EGGS
COTTON DUSKY BUG - EGGS
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
Eggs of cotton dusky bug laid in the lint -half opened bolls of cotton.these eggs are ready to hatch.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
CUCUMBER MOTH / COTTON CATERPILLAR
CUCUMBER MOTH / COTTON CATERPILLAR
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
Diaphania indica is a pest on various members of the Cucurbitae family including Cucumber and Melon. Location; nidana (Jind),
haryana
Diaphania indica (Saunders, 1851)
Crambidae, Spilomelinae
Common Name: Pumpkin Caterpillar, Cotton Caterpillar, Cucumber Moth
Monday, September 21, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
DUSKY COTTON BUG - EGGS
DUSKY COTTON BUG - EGGS
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
Eggs of a cotton pest laid near immature seesds of cotton. The pest is cotton dusky bug
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Consequences of the Green Revolution
Consequences of the Green Revolution
During the 1950s itself the Nehru government had approached the Rockefeller Foundation to apply its technological programmes in India to solve the food deficiency. For this India’s agricultural research was reorganised substantially under the US supervision. In the early 1960s, in the then international context of global agro-industrial corporations looking for new outlets and markets, the World Bank in its capacity as chairman of the Aid India Consortium launched the so-called Green Revolution. With the introduction of this imperialist strategy in to the planning process, more emphasis was provided for agriculture in the Fourth Five Year Plan. At the behest of World Bank and other imperialist agencies the Government of India (GOI) supplied high yielding varieties of seeds, along with fertilisers, pesticides, agro machineries, etc. at subsidised rates to those who had enough resources like land, access to water and capital. The erstwhile zamindars, a section of feudal landlords and new landlords were promoted to reap benefits from the Green Revolution.
In two decades the crop-rotations, crop varieties as well as way of cultivation were changed in well over 50 million hectares. It went on escalating with the government help creating a kulak class who became the new power centres in rural areas controlling the trade, co-operatives and the local administration. Of course there was a boost in the production of food crops to almost 185 million tonnes per annum bringing food self-sufficiency at the present consumption rate of the people out of whom about 50 percent are below poverty line. This also led to marked uneven development among the states and even among regions in a state. It also led to the agricultural bourgeois-rich peasant classes getting organised and launching struggles from early 1980s for better prices for their outputs and more subsidies for agricultural inputs.
The Green Revolution led to more concentration of agricultural land in fewer hands as in Punjab and Haryana. More households became landless increasing the number of the pauperised sections in the rural areas. While the kulak sections reaped big benefits and went on becoming richer, the small peasant and lower middle peasant families faced ruin in many areas when their crops failed and debt accumulated leading to suicides by increasing numbers and ever increasing migrations. On the whole the Green Revolution failed to eliminate or minimise poverty even in highly developed areas. Besides, the enormous accumulation of resources in some of the most favoured areas has left a negative agricultural growth in other areas.
The balance sheet of the land reforms from the top, the Green Revolution and ever-intensifying intrusion of speculative finance capital, MNCs, Corporate houses, market mechanism, etc. to the agrarian sector is proved on the whole highly negative sharpening the contradiction in the rural areas further and pauperising vast sections of rural masses. The National Sample Survey (NSS) results show two marked tendencies. One is fragmentation of the land holdings with average operated area with a family decreasing. This makes agriculture unviable many times for large sections. As a result either the land is kept fallow or sold to landlords, increasing land concentration. The rural landless households have increased sharply. Marginalisation of land holdings is also growing sharply. While the marginal, small, medium households did not gain anything in real terms, the top category comprising 18.5 percent operate 60.2 percent of land and gained in all fields.
NSS shows that the unemployment and underemployment among agricultural labour households have increased significantly. This is more in the Green Revolution areas. The earning of the vast masses have gone down so much that 80 percent of the population’s daily earning is only about Rs. 20. As a result, according to the NSS, more than 80 percent of the population is not able to afford the food necessary to fulfil their calorie requirements.
Thus the agrarian sector gives a picture of extreme contradictions with increasing poverty, with a small section cornering more land and the riches. More than six decades of neo-colonisation, in spite of much trumpeted development projects, has caused serious impact on agrarian sector. It has only made the objective situation more acute. It reveals that only agrarian revolution from below mobilising the agricultural workers-poor peasant class under the leadership of working class can change the situation radically in favour of the masses.
During the 1950s itself the Nehru government had approached the Rockefeller Foundation to apply its technological programmes in India to solve the food deficiency. For this India’s agricultural research was reorganised substantially under the US supervision. In the early 1960s, in the then international context of global agro-industrial corporations looking for new outlets and markets, the World Bank in its capacity as chairman of the Aid India Consortium launched the so-called Green Revolution. With the introduction of this imperialist strategy in to the planning process, more emphasis was provided for agriculture in the Fourth Five Year Plan. At the behest of World Bank and other imperialist agencies the Government of India (GOI) supplied high yielding varieties of seeds, along with fertilisers, pesticides, agro machineries, etc. at subsidised rates to those who had enough resources like land, access to water and capital. The erstwhile zamindars, a section of feudal landlords and new landlords were promoted to reap benefits from the Green Revolution.
In two decades the crop-rotations, crop varieties as well as way of cultivation were changed in well over 50 million hectares. It went on escalating with the government help creating a kulak class who became the new power centres in rural areas controlling the trade, co-operatives and the local administration. Of course there was a boost in the production of food crops to almost 185 million tonnes per annum bringing food self-sufficiency at the present consumption rate of the people out of whom about 50 percent are below poverty line. This also led to marked uneven development among the states and even among regions in a state. It also led to the agricultural bourgeois-rich peasant classes getting organised and launching struggles from early 1980s for better prices for their outputs and more subsidies for agricultural inputs.
The Green Revolution led to more concentration of agricultural land in fewer hands as in Punjab and Haryana. More households became landless increasing the number of the pauperised sections in the rural areas. While the kulak sections reaped big benefits and went on becoming richer, the small peasant and lower middle peasant families faced ruin in many areas when their crops failed and debt accumulated leading to suicides by increasing numbers and ever increasing migrations. On the whole the Green Revolution failed to eliminate or minimise poverty even in highly developed areas. Besides, the enormous accumulation of resources in some of the most favoured areas has left a negative agricultural growth in other areas.
The balance sheet of the land reforms from the top, the Green Revolution and ever-intensifying intrusion of speculative finance capital, MNCs, Corporate houses, market mechanism, etc. to the agrarian sector is proved on the whole highly negative sharpening the contradiction in the rural areas further and pauperising vast sections of rural masses. The National Sample Survey (NSS) results show two marked tendencies. One is fragmentation of the land holdings with average operated area with a family decreasing. This makes agriculture unviable many times for large sections. As a result either the land is kept fallow or sold to landlords, increasing land concentration. The rural landless households have increased sharply. Marginalisation of land holdings is also growing sharply. While the marginal, small, medium households did not gain anything in real terms, the top category comprising 18.5 percent operate 60.2 percent of land and gained in all fields.
NSS shows that the unemployment and underemployment among agricultural labour households have increased significantly. This is more in the Green Revolution areas. The earning of the vast masses have gone down so much that 80 percent of the population’s daily earning is only about Rs. 20. As a result, according to the NSS, more than 80 percent of the population is not able to afford the food necessary to fulfil their calorie requirements.
Thus the agrarian sector gives a picture of extreme contradictions with increasing poverty, with a small section cornering more land and the riches. More than six decades of neo-colonisation, in spite of much trumpeted development projects, has caused serious impact on agrarian sector. It has only made the objective situation more acute. It reveals that only agrarian revolution from below mobilising the agricultural workers-poor peasant class under the leadership of working class can change the situation radically in favour of the masses.
Friday, September 11, 2009
TWO SPOTTED BUG - ADULT
TWO SPOTTED BUG - ADULT
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
Perillus bioculatus;
Carnivorous bug on congress grass
TWO SPOTTED BUG - EGGS
TWO SPOTTED BUG - EGG
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
Eggs of two spotted bug
laid on a leaf of congress grass,
WHITE FLY - NYMPH
WHITE FLY - NYMPH
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
Neither major nor a minor,
pest of cotton now a days,
a insect to name
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
An appeal from grey weevil
Grey weevil a minor insect of cotton submit an application to a kisan panchayat
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
FUTURE OF THE FOETUS OR FOETUS OF THE FUTURE
FUTURE OF THE FOETUS OR FOETUS OF THE FUTURE
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
FUTURE OF FAST GROWING HARYANA
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
FAST DEVOLOPMENT OF HARYANA?
FAST DEVOLOPMENT OF HARYANA?
Those who have watched Haryana’s fast march towards industrialization are full of admiration of Haryana. It has about 1346 large medium industries,and 80,0000 small scale industries. It has about 1000/- projects with foreign technical/financial collaboration. The new industrial policy is being implemented with all earnestness since June 2005. The optimism that this small state with not many natural recourses and away from the sea posts is impressing vast sections very fast. Haryana has followed the national resolve “to support private efforts by further liberalizing and focusing investments in infrastructures and promotion of new technologies for sustained growth “The State Government is equally determined to build strong agriculture and social sectors in order to sustain the high economic growth of over 11 percent. It is keen to spread the benefits of this fast industrial growth to all segments of society. In the next 10 year an investment of Rs. 2 lakh crore is expected which would generate employment avenues for ten lakh youth. . It is observed that to beat the agrarian crises that is casting dark shadows, indusrialization and development of related service sector is the only answer. Really it is so? Big question. On the other side the state is faced with the devil of recession. The industrialists in Gurgaon,
With in this paradigm how the speed of 11 percent industrial growth will be sustained? Moreover, the Haryana is agriculture based Almost 70% people of Haryana are dependant over agriculture. How the industrialization and urbanisation will be able to absorb the displacement of people from agriculture?. In
Monday, August 3, 2009
AENASIUS-THE HEROIC PARASITOID
AENASIUS-THE HEROIC PARASITOID
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
AENASIUS IS AN EXOTIC & HEROIC WASP FOR THE NATURAL CONTROL OF MEALYBUG
BLISTER BEETLE
BLISTER BEETLE
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
BLISTER BEETLE
Mylabris pustulata;
(Coleoptera : Meloidae
SPOTTED BOLLWORM in cotton
SPOTTED BOLLWORM in cotton
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
SPOTTED BOLLWORM in cotton
Order :: Lepidoptera
Family :: Noctuidae
Genus :: Earias insulana
ADULT OF SPOTTED BOLLWORM
ADULT OF SPOTTED BOLLWORM
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
ADULT OF SPOTTED BOLLWORM
Earias vitella; noctuidae; Lepidoptera
RED COTTON BUG - NYMPH
RED COTTON BUG - NYMPH
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
Dysdercus cingulatus:
Pyrrhocoridae;
Hymenoptera
RED COTTON BUG - NYMPHS
RED COTTON BUG - NYMPHS
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
Dysdercus cingulatus:
Pyrrhocoridae;
Hymenoptera
RED COTTON BUG - ADULT
RED COTTON BUG - ADULT
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
Dysdercus cingulatus:
Pyrrhocoridae;
Hymenoptera
RED COTTON BUG -ADULT
RED COTTON BUG -ADULT
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
Dysdercus cingulatus:
Pyrrhocoridae;
Hymenoptera
Sunday, August 2, 2009
ROSE BEETLES ON PEARL-MILLET EARHEAD
ROSE BEETLES ON PEARL-MILLET EARHEAD
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
ROSE BEETLES ON PEARL-MILLET EARHEAD
Cetonia aurata;
Cetonidae:
Coleoptera
CHAFER BEETLE
CHAFER BEETLE
Originally uploaded by Surender Dalal
Cetonia aurata;
Cetonidae:
Coleoptera
Green rose beetle grazing on pearl-millet flowers
Friday, July 24, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009
PARASITOIDIC WASP !!
This is full grown larva of a tinny wasp called locally as ANGIRA say Aenasius spps. that was feeding upon the mealybug from inside
.This has bee scissored out from inside the body of a mealybug by the farmers of Nidana with the help of their nails in the cotton field. See the mummified body of mealybug which had turned dark brown because of feeding by this larva from the inside.
.This has bee scissored out from inside the body of a mealybug by the farmers of Nidana with the help of their nails in the cotton field. See the mummified body of mealybug which had turned dark brown because of feeding by this larva from the inside.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
अंगीरा-किसान का स्वभाविक मित्र
परजीवी,परभक्षी व रोगाणुओं के अलावा मिलीबग के दुश्मन परजीव्याभ भी होते हैं। परजीव्याभ अपने आश्रयदाता से छोटे होते हैं तथा अपना जीवन चक्र पुरा करने के लिए एक ही आश्रयदाता की भेंट लेते हैं। जिला जींद में निडाना के किसानों ने ऐसी ही एक परजीव्याभ संभीरका राजेश पुत्र महाबीर के खेत में कपास के पौधों पर मिलीबग के पेट में पलती हुई पकड़ी है। इसका नाम उन्होंने अंगीरा रखा है। अंगीरा का प्रौढ़ तो स्वतन्त्र जीवन जीता है पर इसकी बाल्यवस्था मिलीबग के पेट में पुरी होती है। आपको मालूम हो कि यह सम्भीरका मिलीबग के पेट में अपने अंडे से लेकर प्रौढ़ होने तक तक़रीबन पंद्रह दिन का समय लेती है। इस प्रक्रिया में मिलीबग को मिलती है -मौत। मिलीबग को परजीव्याभीत करने वाले इस भीरडनुमा जन्नौर को वैज्ञानिक अपनी भाषा में इसे एनासिय्स कहते है।
जच्चा बच्चा का स्वास्थ्य
जिला जीन्द में सरसों की फसल पर इस साल भी चेपे का आक्रमण हुआ है। लेकिन यह हमला हल्का एवम देर से हुआ तथा सौभाग्य से लेडिबिटल व सिरफ़डो मक्खी जैसे कीटभाजी कीट समय पर आ गये जिस कारण हमारी फसल पर इसके प्रकोप का नुकशान नहीं हुआ। चेपा अपनी वंश वृद्धि बिना नर मादा मिलन के भी कर लेता है। इसकी प्रसव वेदना की तो हमें जानकारी नहीं। पर इन्सान की तरह इसको ना तो किसी शिशु प्रजनन स्वास्थ्य कार्यक्रम की आवश्कयता पड़ती है और ना ही किसी सिजेरियन आपरेशन की जरूरत पड़ती है। काश !Thursday, February 5, 2009
सरसों की फसल में अल के शिकारी
एफिडियस नामक सम्भीरका द्वारा परजीव्याभित चेपा :रंग बदला हुआ,शरीर फूला एवं पथराया हुआ।
फफुन्दीय रोगाणु द्वारा संक्रमित मरनासन चेपा 
चेपे की पीठ पर सिरफ़डो का अंडा 
लेडीबीटल का प्रौढ़ 
सरसों की फसल में अल/चेपा के आक्रमण के साथ ही लेडिबीटल्ज/ मनयारियों ने अपनी वंश वृद्धि के लिए अंडे देने शुरू कर दिए ताकि उनके नवजातों को चेपा के रूप में नर्म मांसाहार मिल जाए। 
सिरफ़डो मक्खी कहाँ पीछे रहने वाली थी। उसने भी चेपे की कालोनियों में अंडे दिए।इन अण्डों में से इसका शिशु निकल कर चेपा खाते हुए।
सिरफ़डो मक्खी कहाँ पीछे रहने वाली थी। उसने भी चेपे की कालोनियों में अंडे दिए।इन अण्डों में से इसका शिशु निकल कर चेपा खाते हुए।
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