Posts Tagged ‘Disease Management’
Enhancing potato yield and disease control in small-scale rainfed farming: A successful approach using mulching, fungicides, and cultivar selection
Swayimane and Appelsbosch located in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands are home to a considerable number of smallholder potato farmers who experience challenges that can compromise yields. Smallholder farmers tend to realise…
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Soft rot, blackleg and stem rot is a bacterial disease complex caused by a group of closely related pathogens, namely the pectinolytic enterobacteria. The disease was recently renamed from Erwinia…
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