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The blight disease has damaged ripe oranges in the fields of farmers of Chhatreshwari rural municipality-2 Dahkhola. In the absence of efforts to control the disease, the disease has been observed in the orange plants and ripe fruits of almost one plantation.
Due to the disease, orange leaves are drying and falling, while ripe seeds are turning black. After easy sales and good income, the farmers of Dahkhola left food crops and cultivated oranges on more than 500 plantation lands and have been doing a business of more than one crore rupees a year. Farmers are worried because the disease is spreading rather than being controlled and buyers are refusing to buy ripe oranges.
Local Topendra Dangi said that 300 orange trees in his three orchards were affected due to the blight disease that appeared around the first week of last October. He said that the ripe fruits and leaves of the plants are drying up due to the disease. After the oranges ripen in the garden and reach Pahenalpur, one or two buyers from outside are coming and taking 60 rupees per kilo of oranges every day. No one wants to buy an orange infected with canker sores. Many oranges have been wasted," he said. According to him, there was a loss of about 4 lakhs as the buyer refused to take it.
Out of the 300 orange trees planted on the 15-plant land, more than 100 plants have been destroyed by the disease, said Atiram Vick of Dahkhola. He said that despite the use of pesticides, the disease started to kill the plant itself. It seems that the orange has turned yellow on the plant. From the yellow outside, the black shade of orange is getting darker. It didn't turn black even after washing it with water," he said. "Until last year, I had sold more than 2 lakhs. This year it was wasted because of the disease.'
Another farmer, Chitra Bahadur KC, said that since last year, the oranges in his garden have been affected by the blight disease and despite the use of pesticides and medicines, they have not been completely eradicated. He said that even now 30/35 plants are affected by the blight disease and the buyers are not willing to buy because of the disease. I started orange farming after growing food crops and not having enough to eat throughout the year. The 300 plants in the garden used to earn 4.5 lakhs,' he said, 'this year it was difficult to collect even the expenses incurred by Godmel.
Local Sita KC, who has been managing her household expenses easily by cultivating oranges, said that her business is about to collapse due to the spread of the disease. Ishwari Narayan Gharti, information officer of the Agricultural Development Office Salyan, said that after the disease was found in Dahkhola during the rainy season, even if pesticides and lime were provided to the farmers for control, it could not be fully controlled due to the neglect of the farmers. He has asked the farmers to use pesticides on time for disease diagnosis.
