The traditional style of climbing the Areca nut trees for spraying pesticides and plucking the harvested crop has led to a shortage of workforce and its cultivation, mainly because it was no lesser ...

Fruit rot disease or ‘kole roga’ in arecanut palms during rainy season can be brought under control through an organic spray developed by a private company here if the filed trials proved a success.

Neha Bhatt has made an automatic agri sprayer that can protect areca nut farmers, including her grandfather, from the damage caused by using a fungicide spray Areca nut (betel nut) or supari is one of ...