Pesticide companies are again in the limelight as they have made sales worth Rs 500 crores in the last two months. They are expecting a sale of Rs 800 crore this season. The intense attack of mealy bug in Malwa region has made the farmers go for intensive pesticide sprays. Most of the farmers have lost their crop. The farmers first purchased the costly Bollgard Bt seeds and after the mealy bug attack they have to buy pesticides. After the seed companies it is now the turn of pesticide companies to make big bucks. Once the attack spread, there was panic among the cotton farmers.