FRAUDS

As I said in the last post Dr.Ghosh of P.C.I.visited Markanja a day prior to the day of the seminar.I showed him the paper cuttings which carried the news of the rootgrub problem.After looking the Vijaya karnataka paper he asked with me who gave the photo to the paper. I said that they took photo from me and I got the photo from Dr.Kumar sir.He was interested and I showed him entire photo collection which Kumar sir gave to me.Then he said that a few days earlier he was participating in a function on root grub control.A person,he did not name him,was showing all the photos which he just saw and telling the audience that he along with one of his associate took all those photos ,hence it was his work.Kumar sir said that if it was his work let him name the girl in the photo. She was Kumar sirs assistant.
When I was busy in attending phone calls one person told with me that one farmer from Belthangady is working on grub control and the other day he gave a talk on grub control on the radio.I got his phone number and called the person. He said that he was collecting the beetles in June month.I again called him in the month of May to ascertain the exact time to collect beetles.On May 20 he said that beetles was yet to emerge.On June first week he said that beetles emerge only after few rains. On June second week he said that beetles was emerged earlier in May second week as we had rains at that time.What he forgot is that last year too we had good rains in the month of May and he says that he collected beetles in June.Another peculiar thing with this person was that apart from him no other person in his family was aware of the things to do or the timings to the work.My doubt is that he collected some information from some where and telling that he was doing all those things.
This is only two examples of the fraudulent persons who want name and fame but don't have any practical experience.
In the month of June Sujatha paper published article on rootgrub control. The article was written by Dr.S.S.Patil of Brahmavar K.V.K.On the face of it it was informative.But several question were unanswered in it.And new question were emerged.I wrote an Email to the paper asking several questions.What is the name of host trees .why controlling the grub is so difficult if beetles was attracted towards light,what is the name of nematodes to be used and from where the farmers could collect it, were some of my questions.I got no answer either from the paper nor from the scientist.Later I learnt that each article published in papers would earn a few points in their academic life.In another case another person published hundreds of articles in Kannada language,although he did not know Kannada language.