LARKANA, Oct 23: A three-member team of Sindh plant protection office led by Mohammad Anwer Memon visited the areas of Larkana district where rice crop had came under pest attack.

The team with district agriculture officer Ghulam Rasool Chandio surveyed crop in around 20 villages— Hatri, Bakrani, Aarija, Gairelo, Chhato Wahan, Hassan Wahan, Metla, Jatoi, Jani Bund, Nasirabad, Wagan, Lalu Raink, Gorar, Ghathar, Lashkari Chandio, Dost Ali, Dai-jo-goth, Khaskheli, Kando Buledi and Allah Bakhsh Mugheri— in Warah, Kambar, Dokri and Shahdadkot areas.

The team observed that the crop were attacked by white backed hopper that attacks on the root of the paddy crop and severely damages it.

The initial reports the team had submitted to the director general Agriculture said that two to four per cent paddy crop in the belt it had visited, had been completely damaged.

The damaged portions of the paddy crop could not even yield any grain.