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More than 28,000 hectare of paddy across 15 districts of Assam have been damaged by a specific kind of caterpillar, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday. The Agriculture Department has supplied necessary pesticides and sprayers to contain the spread of the rice ear-cutting caterpillar or mythimna separata, the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said in a post on X.