Potential component technologies for integrated disease management in sugarcane
1990
Sampang, R.C.
The potential technologies discussed, namely: the development of resistant varieties, roguing as a cultural practice, use of hot water for seed pieces as physical treatment, and chemical treatment of seedpieces using fungicides to ensure that seedpieces are disease-free, are actually established measures in sugarcane disease control. It is now just a matter of integrating these potential technologies with other control measures and cultural practices in a manner that would maximize protection of the plant crop and its succeeding ratoons against diseases. A concerted effort is needed among the planters, millers, and government sectors in the adoption of this concept in the field. There is a need for the planters and all those involved in sugarcane farming for an orientation to better understand this concept. Adoption of these potential technologies as components of integrated diseases management also depend to a larger extent on the profitability of growing sugarcane in the country.
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