Infected: A rice field afflicted with the leaf-drying BLB in Sabak Bernam.
SABAK BERNAM: A bacterial infection has destroyed the padi fields here, leaving farmers with heavy losses.
It is learned that some 4,440ha of padi fields in Sabak Bernam have been infected with the bacterial leaf blight (BLB) disease, which dries up the leaves and kills the plants.
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