HOW RICE DISEASES ARE THE 51st SHADE OF GRAY - barefoot farmbooks
a cheat sheet on EFFECTIVE DISEASE OF MAIN FOOD CROP RICE : Do you consume that white-grain thrice a day? Well, do you ever consider what if they were diseased? Let's have a quick view! BLAST DISEASE Causal Agent: Pyricularia grisea Symptoms: It appears on leaves, nodes, panicle and grains On The leaves, spots are typically spindle-shaped with more or less pointed ends with greyish centre sand Brown to reddish brown margins Lesions may coalesce kill the entire leaf Remedy: Use of healthy seeds Early sowing Proper Transplanting Some level of resistance has been recorded in IR- 20, IR-36 and IR-42. Spray bavistin @0.2% Orhinosan @ 0.1% with the initiation of leaf blast and repeat at neck blast stage. BROWN SPOT: Causal Agent: Drechslera oryzae Symptoms: Appears on leaves, coleoptiles, leaf sheath, and b ranches A small circular spot which later on becomes o val...