SANGHAR, June 28: Pesticides have lost their effectiveness due to a thick layer of dust over the leaves of crops, complained growers in the district.

They said cotton, chilli, sugar cane and other crops had been made vulnerable to pests and insects by this menace. At many places pest has attacked the cotton crop and the farmers were washing leaves with water before spray.

The practice was aggravating the problem as the wet leaves were accumulating more dust.

Most of the farmers resorted to indiscriminate spray to save their crop from total destruction but in vein.

body found A partially decomposed body of an unidentified youth was found near the Berani road, Shahdadpur, on Thursday. The body was buried by some people in a cotton field and dug out by dogs.

Announcements were made in nearby villages to identify the victim but no one claimed the body. The taluka hospital doctors said the body was of a 22-year-old man.

Later, it was buried in a local graveyard.