Practice Name:

Controlling Root Rot in Mango

Details

Category Crop Production
Crop Mango
Crop Family Anacardiaceae
Scientific Name (Mangifera indica)
Vernacular Name Mango Tree
Scout HBN
Ingredients (Euphorbia neriifolia)
Details Of Innovation Root rot damages mango tree (Mangifera indica) more in the monsoon than in the other seasons. The disease affects the roots and the plant dies. The disease is often seen when the plant is one-and-a-half to two years of age. To circumvent root rot, Vasanjibhai Gayakwad takes precautions even before planting mango. During the summer, pits of 2.5x1.5 are dug in the farm where mango or other horticulture plants are to be planted. Then garbage is filled in the pit and burnt. In the next stage, about 1 to 1.5 kg organic manure is filled in the pit. When it rains, pieces of (Euphorbia neriifolia) are put in the pits and only then mango or other horticulture saplings are planted. The planting has to be done keeping six-feet distance between two plants.(Euphorbia neriifolia) is a thorny plant with thick and long leaves. It exudes white milky juice. Its trunk and branches are green and turn white when very ripe. It produces yellow flowers.
Innovator / Knowledge Provider Vasanjibhai Gayakwad
Languages Spoken Gujarati
Vocation Farming
State Gujarat
PAS 1 "The treatment of neem leaf extract in combination with cool storage gave encouraging results. Up to the end of the storage study the treatment combination of 20 % neem leaf extract and cool store completely inhibited the pathogens, and no spoilage was observed." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13197-012-0774-0
PAS 2 "Neem seed extracts have considerable broadspectrum toxicity against a number of agricultural pests and pathogens (Quarles, 1994), have less risk of inducing resistance in insects (Feng and Isman, 1995) and are relatively nontoxic to mammals" https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/199245865.pdf
PAS 3 "Fruits subjected to higher temperature during HWT developed more yellow and uniform colour. Rest of the treatment results were non-significant." http://pakjas.com.pk/papers/331.pdf
PAS 4 "Sustainable and ecofriendly management of black banded disease of Mango from Kolhapur, Maharashtra" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340377320_Sustainable_and_ecofriendly_management_of_black_banded_disease_of_Mango_from_Kolhapur_Maharashtra/link/
PAS 5 "Prevalence and Eco-Friendly Management of Some Important Nursery Diseases of Mango in Bangladesh" http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jas/article/download/42054/29757 whether
Other Community Practices "Mango: Diseases and symptoms."https://vikaspedia.igriculture/crop-production/integrated-pest-managment/ipm-for-fruit-crops/ipm-strategies-for-mango/mango-diseases-and-symptoms
Practice ID DTP0010000005106
Annotation ID GIAN/GAVL/909
Reference HBN database
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