Awareness drive held on congress grass
Express News Service

Ludhiana, September 07: Residents of Khanpur and Jarkhar villages were
apprised of the harmful affects of congress grass and means to control
the weed during the parthenium awareness days organised there on
Thursday and Friday respectively. The camps were held under the
national-level parthenium awareness week being organised from
September 6 to September 12, under the auspices of National Research
Centre for Weed Science (NRCWS), Jabalpur (MP).

The speakers, Dr. Tarlok Singh and Dr. R.K.Bhatia, said that the
congress grass (parthenium) â€" called gajar booti in local lingo â€" was
the most noxious weed which had invaded all the states of the country.
The harmful effects of this weed on human and animal health were many.


They stressed that the weed could not be controlled or eradicated
until some serious campaign involving the local residents was
initiated. Keeping this in view, the national-level parthenium
awareness week was being organised, they added.

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=255275