Abstract
Cotton is a cash crop and its raw material is extremely important for use in textile industry. Pakistan comes in top exporter of cotton. Cotton crop is under different stresses during its production out of which pest pressure is most important to deal with. Rural Education & Economic Development Society (REEDS) Pakistan is working for production of better of cotton along with promotion of less pesticide use thus mitigating the environmental pollution. REEDS has established field study for use of neem extract as botanical spray against sucking pests and diseases. This experiment was done on farmer fields of Vehari and Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab and Dadu, Sindh. Botanical spray was used against sucking pests to delay the application of first pesticide for maximum number days. Which would ultimately reduce the number of pesticides applied along with less residual effects on humans and environment. The pest scouting data of trial plot clearly show the decrease in pest population after application of neem extract up to 79 days after sowing in comparison to control plot. Similarly, number of total pesticides used in trail plots were less in comparison to control plots.
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Claim · model-written summary
Neem extract botanical spray reduced the pest population in cotton up to 79 days after sowing compared with control plots.
- Taxon
- cotton
Gossypium hirsutume0 - Treatment
- application of neem extracte1
- Interactor
- sucking pestse3pest
- Outcome
- pest populatione1
- Direction
- decreasee1
- Qualifier
- up to 79 days after sowinge1
- Comparator
- control plote1
- Setting
- farmer fields of Vehari and Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab and Dadu, Sindhe2
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Verbatim
e0“Cotton is a cash crop”
e1“The pest scouting data of trial plot clearly show the decrease in pest population after application of neem extract up to 79 days after sowing in comparison to control plot”
e2“This experiment was done on farmer fields of Vehari and Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab and Dadu, Sindh”
e3“Botanical spray was used against sucking pests”
Claim · model-written summary
Cotton trial plots sprayed with neem extract used fewer total pesticides than control plots.
- Taxon
- cottonGossypium hirsutume0
- Treatment
- neem extracte1
- Outcome
- number of total pesticides usede4
- Direction
- lesse4
- Comparator
- control plotse4
- Setting
- farmer fields of Vehari and Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab and Dadu, Sindhe2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Cotton is a cash crop”
e1“application of neem extract”
e2“This experiment was done on farmer fields of Vehari and Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab and Dadu, Sindh”
e4“number of total pesticides used in trail plots were less in comparison to control plots”
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