Tomato: Control of late blight disease

Late blight disease is a fungal disease. These fungi survive for a long time in the soil of the field and in the remains of disease-affected crops. Due to its rapid spread, this disease causes heavy damage to the tomato crop. This deadly disease can occur on the leaves of plants at any stage. From where you can see the symptoms and control measures of late blight disease.

symptoms of disease

• Brownish-purple or gray-green spots appear on the lower surface of the leaves.

• Gradually these spots can also be seen on twigs and fruits.

• As the disease progresses, the color of the spots also turns black.

• When the disease outbreak is high, the plants start drying up.

control measures

• Separate the disease-affected parts from the plants. Then destroy them by burning them.

• Use Mancozeb 75% WP at 400 gm per acre of field.

• Do second spray of Custodia. Use 200 liters of water mixed with 300 ml custodia for spraying per acre of field. It contains 11 percent Azoxystrobin and 18.3 percent Tebuconazole.

• Apart from this, to get rid of it, you can also sprinkle 25 to 30 grams of countryside full stop in 15 liters of water.

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The medicines mentioned in this post will prove to be effective for the control of late blight disease. If you liked this information then please like this post. Also share it with other farmer friends. Ask us your questions related to tomato cultivation through comments.