Talwandi Sabo, famous for one of the five Takhts of Sikhism-Takht Sri Damdama Sahib- has many issues like the pink bollworm attack on the cotton crop.

Key Points:

• Residents in the rural belt are very upset as pink bollworm has attacked the cotton crop on vast swathes of fields for long, and there seems no solution in sight. 
• India is the only Bt cotton-growing country facing the problem of pink bollworm infestation.
• Unlike other bollworm insect species that also attack other crops such as pigeon-pea, sorghum and sunflower, PBW feeds only on cotton.
• The infestation of this insect pest — whose larvae bore into cotton bolls through the lint fibre to feed on the seeds — happened during October, just when the crop was maturing and almost ready for its first-flush pickings, and further aggravated by unseasonal rains.