Scientists at Washington State University and China Jiliang University have discovered that the quality of the host rice plant determines whether the brown planthopper, a major pest on rice in ...

Attack by brown planthopper has been reported from fields under Kavalam, Pulinkunnu, Neelemperoor and Veliayand Krishi Bhavans. Farmers in Kuttanad have undertaken paddy cultivation in large tract ...

While the farmers in Tiruvannamalai are yet to recover from the loss caused due to the outbreak of brown planthopper disease ( pugaiyan) in the last Navarai season, paddy crops in about 500 acres ...

Not much is known about the genus of planthopper known as Conosimus ... which are usually light brown or light-brown yellowish. However, Conosimus baenai has light yellow or greenish-yellow ...

like the brown planthopper with the help of their natural enemies. They've discovered that a particular species of hunting spider is highly-effective at keeping populations of the pests under ...

ROURKELA: The district agriculture authorities of Sundargarh are on alert after reports of brown planthopper (BPH) attack in two blocks of neighbouring Jharsuguda. Around 15 hectare (ha ...