by NUSRAT ARA
With a smile, Gul remembers newspaper stories about a woman spoiling the expensive golf course. She says she was under heavy pressure from the management to solve the problem.
Most of the chemicals for eliminating white grubs are not allowed in India so Gul had to find a solution herself.
She enlisted the help of a local agricultural university, where two research students worked with her for many weeks on possible solutions. In addition to using chemicals on the bugs, they came up with a special fence that wards off bears and other wild animals by sending electromagnetic waves. Gul happily describes how their point-by-point remedy is regarded “as a reference on the problem of white grubs today.”
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