Phytosanitation in St. Lucia

St Hill, T.

Phytosanitation in St. Lucia

1987

St Hill, T. (St. Lucia Banana Growers' Association, Castries (St. Lucia))

The major banana pests and diseases influenced by poor field management are highlighted. Control of leaf spot (Sigatoka) benefits from a plant density from 1550 to 2100 mats/ha, weed control and detrashing and adequate surface drainage. Nematodes, borers (cosmopolites sordidus), thrips and mosaic virus are reduced by weed control, trash removal and sleeving

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AGROVOC Keywords

banane banano escarda plagas de plantas ravageur des plantes virus de las plantas

Bibliographic information

Other Subjects

Desherbage; Virus des vegetaux; Santa lucia/ enfermedades de las plantas; Sainte-lucie/ maladie des plantes

Language

English

Note

*XG

Type

Conference; Non-Conventional

Source

Seminar proceedings: Improving Citrus and Banana Production in the Caribbean through Phytosanitation, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation, ACP-EEC Convention of Lome, Wageningen (Netherlands); Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute, St. Augustine (Trinidad and Tobago).- Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago), [1987]. p. 95-97

Conference

Improving Citrus and Banana Production in the Caribbean through Phytosanitation, (St. Lucia), 2-5 Dec 1986

In AGRIS since: 1989-08-15

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