Central government has dispatched a team to West Bengal to ensure that the wheat-growing holiday declared in Nadia and Murshidabad districts, as well as in a 5-km wide belt along the Indo-Bangladesh border, to check spread of wheat blast is strictly observed. The state government, too, has been asked to step up surveillance to ensure timely intervention in case the disease is detected in any other district. The Latin American fungal disease had made its way across the border from Bangladesh into India, and was spotted in Murshidabad and Nadia districts in February this year. The government had burnt the affected crop over about 1,100 ha in Murshidabad and Nadia districts and in one village in Malda district.