When doing my UG in Agri, I remember one of my Pathology Lecturers say that Pak deliberately practices what is today known as AgroTerrorism. Punjab supplies wheat & rice to the whole of India. A greater section of Punjab is with Pakistan. Wheat can also be grown there. Pak doesn't control diseases in their wheat crops, knowing very well that the fungal spores will be blown over to India & infect India's wheat belts. Pak doesn't control spread of locusts too (insects similar to grasshoppers, but can wipe out any vegetation in their path by feeding. They attack in 100s of millions of insects. U should have viewed them on NGC). So to control locust spred from Pak to India, a belt of no vegetation is maintained several km thick on the Indian side of the border. India also maintains a seperate body to look into the spread of locusts from the Pak to India. Officers also look into the spread of fungal spores from Pak to India. Whatever critics may say of the Indian govt, we should at least thank our govt that they maintain such kind of vigil. Otherwise we would have been doomed long ago. Our alert officers keep us safe, be it in the army or agri division. Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan! Jai Hind!
