Caterpillar Pests

A number of rice farmers in the District Palas, South Lampung, began to fret and shadowed crop failure. The reason, they are now owned rice caterpillar pests, rodents and jaundice. According to Hamidi (33), one of the farmers in the hamlet Lebung Prohibition, Talbot Village, District Palas, the farmers in the area began to worry about crop failure in the spring of 2008. For the current rice crop damaged their property. Almost all plants belong to us now broken rice. We also do not know what else to overcome pests of rice like worms, snails, and jaundice, "said Hamidi, Friday (16-5), pointing to the area of ​​paddy fields damaged by caterpillar pests and jaundice.
Hamidi said Lebung ban rice fields planted in rice, caterpillar pests and jaundice. "For District Palas, broken rice, there are three villages, Talbot Village, the Village Building, and the Village Sukabakti. Almost all the rice plant owned by local farmers, the average infected caterpillars and jaundice. How can we not fret. While I was planting rice damaged all, "he said. Meanwhile, Toni (29), a rice farmer in Talbot Village, District Palas, which has fields in Lebung Ban said a few months ago, his paddy crop damaged by snails attacked. Unfinished face pest snails, has now come other pests, caterpillars and jaundice. "I've tried everything to make spraying and eradicate pests that attack rice plants. But, caterpillars and jaundice still attacking rice crops we grow, "said Toni. Toni said it could be ascertained rice farmers in the area at the time the growing season harvest will fail. In fact, in the 2008 planting season, farmers in the area are hoping their fields could reap maximum results. However, what may make, most likely in this year's harvest, the rice farmers in the region can only get a few results. Caterpillars and snails and jaundice attack rice crops we grow, the farmers make huge losses. 

 

Combating pest caterpillars
Meanwhile, to overcome widespread pests are five ways you can do, is catch a butterfly (parent armyworm) with insect nets, gather eggs to be destroyed, put banana leaves on the location so that the armyworm infestation that can not stand sunlight is gathered spraying under the leaves then performed with inteksida. Besides doing flooding rice fields with water and spraying with inteksida.
However, of the five is the most effective way and have done Kotim Department of Agriculture is doing flooding rice fields with water to create dignity and spraying with inteksida. Meanwhile, to help farmers planting rice diareal caterpillars attacked the Department of Agriculture will provide assistance as much as 30 kg of seeds for each household of farmers and seed planting is planned to be implemented after Eid Eid.  

While the information gathered "ANTARA" media, worm attacks are not only attacks the five districts, but also has attacked rice crop in Ketapang District of New Mentawa there are dozens of acres affected. Yanto one of the farmers in the village of Eka Bahurui say, this caterpillar pests, farmers become frustrated because almost every year pests, and agricultural land before they were attacked locusts wanderer. According to him, the emergence of this pest is expected due to the disruption of the natural balance of the forest has been deforested due to looting and burning.