date:Dec 19, 2018
ion. Since orange is a juicy fruit, an orange plant needs almost 60-80 litre water every day. However, so much water was not available to many farmers this year. We are getting reports of the disease spreading, said Totey.
Pramod Wasankar, an orange grower from Achalpur, Amravati, said because of HLB, the orange supply during the August-January period has dropped by 40%. Though production was good, a bulk of the produce got infected, he said. Not only did it rain less, but excessive load-sheddi