Hubei: Experts Warn Cotton Pests And Diseases After Flood Control

Affected by recent continuous rainstorm weather

Supplement:

The Hubei Provincial Department of agriculture and the Provincial Meteorological Bureau held the July joint meeting of the association of precipitation and late weather on the impact of agricultural production.

The main precipitation process, general situation, characteristics, main impact on agricultural production and prediction of late weather trend since July were analyzed.

The meeting pointed out that, on the 8~16 day of July, 9 consecutive days of heavy rainfall continued in the southwest of Hubei, Jianghan Plain, Southeastern Hubei and northeast Hubei, after 1991 and 1964, the longest in nearly 20 years, with a history of third.

It has different effects on various crops.

Among them, the influence of cotton: the cotton seedlings in the disaster area lodged in large areas, the drainage in the low-lying cotton fields was not smooth, and the top of the water was flooded for more than three days, resulting in dead roots and seedlings.

After soaking in rain water, cotton leaves damaged and delayed the growth process, resulting in a large number of cotton bud abscission.

The eastern part of northeastern Hubei, the eastern part of Jianghan Plain and the western part of Hubei Province are seriously flooded. Cotton fields in Xiantao, Jianli, Honghu and other places can not effectively drain the water, and the cotton plants are dead and dead.

In early July, early local heavy rainfall had limited impact on agriculture, and 8-15 days, regional, continuous and concentrated precipitation caused serious disasters to field crops and fishery production, and caused secondary disasters such as diseases and insect pests and dark disasters.

Later, it is expected that 24 days will be cloudy in the whole province and showers in the west, and 25~29 in the west, cloudy and small to moderate showers, sunny and cloudy in the East, and sunny and cloudy on 30~31.