Hundreds Hectare of Irrigated Attack Slug Gold

By Line : dedy kurniawan


Hundreds of hectares of rice fields in South Konawe District, Southeast Sulawesi, damaged due to severe pest attack slug gold. Attack slug gold appear following a rainy season comes in the last three weekends. As a result, hundreds of local farmers hundreds of millions of rupiah losers.

The rice plant is presently attacked crops damaged by the pest slug gold. Golden snail pests also attack the rice plant is still young. To reduce the losses, the farmers forced to harvest early.


The farmers say, pest slug actually have more gold four years do not appear in the region. Later, since the rains came down in the last three weekends, pest slug gold again appear and damage the rice farmers.

The local government can be expected to lend a hand so that the losses experienced by farmers is not the greater.