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Keywords: rice Oryza sativa, rice bug Leptocorisa varicornis, India, damage, outbreak, distribution of attack, Madhya Pradesh, Vindhya Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, organization of control campaign, insecticide application, DDT, benzene hexachloride, heavy losses prevented