Farmers in Bhojpur Concerned Over Fruit Drop and Diseases in Orange Orchards

Bhojpur. Farmers in Bhojpur are worried after fruit drop and outbreak of various diseases in orange orchards. Farmers are distressed, fearing that their year-long hard work and investment will go to waste as the oranges are falling off before ripening due to rotten stems.

Tirtha Bahadur Pradhan, a farmer from Gupteeshwor in Bhojpur Municipality-3, said that a disease causing oranges to turn yellow and fall to the ground on their own has spread. He stated that oranges that survived the hailstorm during the fruiting season are now facing the problem of fruit drop.