Barwani: Driven to distress after seeing their chilli crops affected by curl leaf virus, farmers in six villages of Rajpur sub-division uprooted their yields on Sunday. A despaired Rajpur farmer ...

Bicholim: The agriculture department found that the chilli plantations in Mayem have been affected by the leaf curl virus ...

Chilli seed beds that are purchased from local nurseries got infected by leaf curl virus in pre-harvest season. With the crops being damaged, the farmers are running into huge losses.

India’s green chilli production stood at 38.51 lakh tonnes during 2019-20 according to the second advance estimates. This is higher than the previous year’s output of 37.83 lakh tonnes.