Sugarcane Thirty-third to thirty-fourth week practices

Wilt:

Symptoms:

• The   affected plants are stunted with yellowing and withering of crown leaves.
• The midribs of all leaves in a crown generally turn yellow, while the leaf lamina may remain green.

Management–

Cultural Control-

• Select the seed material from the disease-free plots.
• Burn the trash and stubbles in the field.
• Grow coriander or mustard as a companion crop in the early stages of crop.
• Avoid alkaline soils for growing the crop.

Physical Control-

• Treat the sets in hot water at 500C for 2 hours followed by dipping in Carbendazim 75%WP @ 2g/liter of water for 1kg of seed for 15 minutes.
• Dip the sets in @40 ppm Boron or Manganese for 10 minutes.

Biological Control-

• Multiply Trichoderma viride @1kg/acre mix with 25 kg of Farm yard manure for 15 days and then apply to the soil.

Chemical Control-

• Treatment of setts with fungi-toxicants before planting Bavistin 50% WP. Apply Carbendazim 50% WP @ 2 gm/lit of water.