Pests and Diseases of Coffee
Pests and Diseases of Coffee
1) Coffee White Borer:
Swabbing of coffee stems with 50%.BHC-WP @ 3 kg in 180 liters of water in April and Get.
2) Cock Chafer :
Treatment with Endosulpan.
3) Green Bug:
i) Brown eve spot verespora caffeicola Spray nursery stock 0.4% Captan and young plant with 1 % B .M. in April-May and Sept-Oct.
ii) Diaback – Celletotrichum coffeaenum Glomerella angulatat.
Control
a) Cleaning of infested branches & Burning.
b) Spraying B.M,
Diseases:
iii) Pink disease.
iv) Damping off.
v) Leaf spot
vi) Leaf rust – Hemileiavastrairix
First recorded in 1870. The loss varied from 50 to 60%
Symptoms :
Leaves are affected, but young branches and fruits are also sometimes affected. Orange yellow spots on lower surface of leaves and corresponding brown spots on the upper surface.
Control:
1. Two sprays of 0.5%A B.M. before onset of monsoon and after monsoon.
2. Use of resistant varieties.