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Cultural methods used to control diseases of crops;
-Using healthy planting materials
-Practicing field hygiene e.g. burning diseased crop residues
-Proper seedbed reparation
-Proper spacing to control damping off in cabbages seedling
-Heat treatment e.g. in control of ratoon stunting disease in sugarcane
-Proper drying of cereals and pulses to recommended moisture content before storage
-Use of disease resistant varieties such as Ruiru II variety of coffee.
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