Pest control and fumigation in Kurunegala

Stored crops are the main work

Kurunegala sits in the coconut and paddy country, and most of the commercial demand here is stored product: insects breeding inside bagged and bulk crops while the outside of the stack looks perfectly clean. By the time beetles are visible on the surface, several generations have already developed inside the goods.

That is fumigation work rather than spraying work. A gas moves through sacking and through the commodity itself, which is where the insects actually are.

Smaller stores, grouped visits

The storage here tends to be spread across many smaller stores rather than concentrated in a few large mills. We group jobs across the district so a technician is not travelling a long way for a single stack, which is a scheduling decision that keeps the cost sensible for the smaller operators.

Where the insects come back from

A store that reinfests on a cycle is usually being reinfested by its own intake. We report what a job showed about deliveries and about the condition of the store, because treating the same stack every few months is more expensive over a year than dealing with the source once.