The Agriculture Department mobilised public support to eradicate parthenium from agricultural fields, wasteland and roadsides under its week-long initiative.
At Kollanakalli hamlet of periyasemmandampalayam panchayat in Kodumudi block, 55 villagers joined hands with the department in the eradication process. The villagers sprayed atrazine on the weed. At several other places in other blocks, a solution mixed with 20 per cent common salt was sprayed on the plants by sections of the public including members of non-government organisations.
The initiative, the Agriculture Department hopes, will contain the menacing spread of the weed, and safeguard biodiversity.
The Department is keen on eradicating the weed completely.
The weed, apart from depleting water table, causes illness to human beings as wells as cattle
