Re: Eagles/vultures In Punjab
Posted by Indy S Dhillon
Re: Eagles/vultures In Punjab
Posted by Indy S Dhillon on Monday, 10/03/2005 1:30 PM MDT
| Thank you Tuto that was a very informative post, one of the problems I had encountered was that the sweet corn on our farms had been eaten by this green locust-like insect called a "thothaa" it hops from one place to another and I don’t know what you call it in English it sounds like the Punjabi for parrot, it looks like a grasshopper and this year it was like a plague every night we had to shut our doors and windows before we went to bed because they would not let me sleep, admittedly i was scared of them i have never seen insects that big and they used to jump on my face whilst i was asleep. These insects i think are one of the reasons why they spray pesticides, we didn’t on my farm but i remember whilst we went to the farm to pick sweet corn to take home a lot of the crop was damaged so what can you do? can we not introduce a natural predator of these green insects i remember something like that in biology. Sabretooth Ji you are right about the pollution, and I dont want to be racist or anything but i know that the "gujjar" (kashmiri refugees) are to blame for a lot of this they tend to just settle wherever there’s a free spot even on the side of the road and they make such a mess, they dump all sorts of metals and stuff that cannot be biodegraded and just leave it there, in our village they have actually acquired land and they let there buffalos graze freely and they eat the crop on our land and once I witnessed this and told my grandfather and when he told them to keep there buffalos away they simply ignored him. I have also noticed that when you go to cities like nawashehr, banga, jalandhar and phagwara there is a lot of traffic and there are a lot of fumes, I know after the monsoon rains you can see how much pollution and waste there is as it all surfaces with the rain and when the heat comes the stench is unbearable. Pollution is a major issue as people are becoming more and more affluent, however another observation i noticed was that a lot of building and architectural development seems to have been abandoned and not finished i noticed this everywhere i went and this is another eyesore. What can you do this is the responsibility of the government. Despite all the bad there is still more good and I had a great time. Inderjit Singh Dhillon |
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