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Explain five cultural methods used to control crop diseases.

      

Explain five cultural methods used to control crop diseases.

  

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gideon
-Use of healthy planting materials to reduce introducing disease causing organism on the farm.
-Practicing field hygiene such as burning of disease crop residues/using clean implements/clean
weeding to destroy micro habitats for disease carrying pest, and roquning.
-Proper seedbed preparation.
-Des-tamping controls armillana root rot in tea and coffee.
-Proper spacing used to control damping off in cabbage seedlings in the nursery and rosette
disease in groundnuts.
-Heat treatment for control of ratoon starting disease in sugarcane.
-Proper drying of cereals and pulses to recommended moisture content before storage.
-Use of disease resistant varieties such as Ruini 11 which is resistant to CBD.
gideon1 answered the question on October 11, 2017 at 07:28


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