Climate change is becoming more complex, leading to more pests on plants. In particular, for pepper is the most difficult industrial crops, very sensitive to pests.
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Although high cost pepper brings great economic efficiency for farmers, but the techniques to care for and prevent pests are also more complicated than many other industrial crops such as tea, coffee and rubber. … To help people have good knowledge about the care and prevention of pests and diseases in general, Giatieu.com inviting people to refer to through guidance on pest control for pepper:
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Pepper is a crop adapted to light scattering conditions. For good plant growth, it is necessary to have permanent shade trees for pepper during growing time. Shading is the regulatory mechanism that helps the tree bear fruit. Pepper growing soil needs to have appropriate humidity and good drainage in the rainy season. Some pepper farmers do not understand the characteristics of this crop so they do not shade and plant low-lying areas often flooded when it rains.
Pests that often appear on pepper plants such as late-blighting yellow leaf disease, fast-death disease, root rot disease, fungi, aphids, nematodes and many other dangerous diseases cause great damage to pepper. economy. To prevent these diseases, people need to pay attention to the following issues:
Regularly visit pepper gardens so that when the disease has just appeared phenomena of diseases such as yellowing, blighting, curling, leaf spots, waterlogging, pests, etc., it will be easy to find and take early remedies. dress more
Pepper is a very sensitive crop to climate change. The same is true for the soil environment, prolonged dry weather or erratic rainfall.
It is always better to remember the principle of prevention first than cure. Because when diseases appear, people have to spray or find ways to eradicate but the success rate is still limited, which greatly affects pepper productivity.
When using plant protection drugs to handle, people should pay attention to the following issues:
- Granular or powdered medicines should be spread evenly around the canopy.
- Only spread when the soil is relatively humid, not when the soil is dry.
- Drugs that are diluted for rooting should follow the appropriate ratio of professional instructions or the instructions for use stated on the packaging.
In particular, to prevent the rapid death caused by Phytophthora sp, usually in the rainy season, the best way is to prevent the disease by using the trichoderma antagonist fungus. Note the room as follows:
- Clearly trim shade trees during the wet season, preferably immediately after the pepper plants enter the seeds.
- Revise the drainage system so that drainage is not flooded
- Using trichoderma antagonistic fungus to prevent disease at least 3 times / year, at the beginning, middle and end of rainy season. When disease outbreaks occur in localities, it is necessary to supplement once more.
- Be careful when you want to multiply antagonistic fungal biomass because it will reduce the effectiveness, if not sure you will multiply biomass successfully.
In case the disease has caused damage, causing the phenomenon of green leaf loss, there are many rotten spots on the leaf surface. She also used plant protection drugs to kill the disease under therapy giatieu.com Recommend as follows:
- Using mixed medicine, there are 2 active ingredients Mancozeb + Melataxyl 72WP. Depending on the severity of the disease, pour at least 1 root and spray 2 times in a row.
- Considering the disease has not decreased, or if necessary, it is possible to pour the root and spray the leaves again. Note the isolation time between 2 times maximum of 7 days, if further, the effect will be low.
- Note, during treatment, absolutely do not use any other medicine. Nor arbitrarily mixed more feces, will reduce the effectiveness. Even make the disease worse.
At present, the market appears to treat diseases for plants by using antagonistic and useful microorganisms, especially the group Streptomyces antibiotic bacteria. People consider, refer carefully to use.
We hope that the above contributions will help farmers grow pepper before the climate change becomes increasingly complex, causing the current widespread epidemic.
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