Monday, July 27, 2009

Leaf spot in Turmeric - Text from http://www.spices.res.in

Leaf spot
The disease is caused by Colletotrichum capsici.

Symptoms
* It appears as brown spots of various sizes on the upper surface
of the young leaves.The spots are irregular in shape, whitish or
grayish in the centre.
* Later two or more spots may coalesce and form an irregular patch
covering almost the whole leaf.
* The affected leaves eventually dry up.
* The rhizomes do not develop well.

Management
* The disease can be controlled by spraying the plants with zineb
0.3% or Bordeaux mixture 1%.

2 comments:

Srinivasan M.R. said...

Dear Bapuji,
Nice collection of information
M.R.Srinivasan

Unknown said...

its a very nice collection. informatin can be useflul to the turmeric farmers. But propiconazole gave very good result to control this disease inspite of B.M.