Diseases Of Vegetable Crops: Identification, Diagnosis And Treatment

Description

Many plant diseases attack vegetables, but often one can avoid damage by careful husbandry or by applying control measures at appropriate times of the year. Accurate disease identification is the first step in planning an effective and efficient disease control program. Although a vegetable grower will encounter only some of these during one season, he must be able to identify them and to distinguish significant and potentially serious diseases from less important diseases.
Knowledge is the only real tool planters have to protect their crops and save their livelihood. The work of a farmer is immense for it requires mediation between natural forces like rainfall, weather patterns, etc that are out of his control as well as factors like irrigation, cultivation, crop rotation cycles, etc that are within his direct control.
Right from the stage of germination, a plant is susceptible to diseases. A diseased plant will by default produce a bad often mutated crop. Fruits and vegetables being the raw materials for all food hold grave significance for all human life. A bad crop can lead to shortages of supplies which can cause riots and even impact the economy of a nation. Therefore identifying diseases at a nascent stage is of the utmost importance and requires correct understanding. This book gives detailed information on this subject.