Application of Crop Protection For Fruit Trees Crop Protection

Application of Crop Protection for Fruit Trees
Crop protection – crop protection combines strategies, tools,

and products that protects against various pest. Including diseases,
viruses, weeds and insects.
- Used to control the situation by reducing the risks rather than deal
with the problems consequences.
- One of the most co-effective ways of protecting plants.
- It makes harvesting yields easier and provides stable growth during
each season.
 Culture protection- allows farmers to monitor climate change and
notice the appearance of dangerous weeds, pests, or diseases
timely.
Advantages of crop protection for farmers are:

 Increased production of smaller areas
 Higher yields and consequently more food
 Protection of the environment
 Preservation of stored products
Types of Crop Protection

Biological Control- Biological control is an important component of
any insect or mite management program whether its strictly an organic
or conventional program. This page covers the basic concept of
biological control and provides links to more extensive information.
Disease Management- A disease can be described as any change from
the normal condition of plants, which detract from their appearance, or
make them less useful or valuable. On this page we cover biotic diseases
caused by bacteria, fungi and viruses specifically affecting fruit trees or
their fruit.
Insect and Mite Pests- This page explains the concept of integrated
pest management and lists useful resource links to in-depth management
recommendations and tools.
Nematodes - There are several nematode species that can cause
problems in tree fruit orchards. Parasitic nematodes that can damage tree
fruit roots are the Root Lesion, Root Knot, and Dagger nematodes in
apple trees, and the Root Lesion nematode in Cherry and Pear trees. This
webpage will cover descriptions and control tactics for the major Pacific
Northwest orchard nematodes.
Orchard Pest Management - A practical reference on tree fruit IPM.
Insect hosts, life stages, life histories, damage, monitoring, biological
control, and management are described for most major and minor pests
in orchards as well as major natural enemies. This information is
designed to be used in combination with the WSU Crop Protection
Guide and WSU Decision Aid System to inform integrated pest
management decisions.
Pear IPM - Historical difficulty and recent challenges with pear psylla
and mites have sparked interest among growers, consultants, fruit
packers, and researchers to take a closer look at the strategies we use to
control these pests. Two industry-directed WSU projects focused on
integrated pest management of pears began in early 2017.
Weed Control - Tree fruit growers need to continually manage weeds

in orchards, especially in the “weed-strip,” the three to eight feet wide
band under the trees, in the tree row. This webpage will discuss the
How’s and Why’s of orchard weed control.
Chemical Crop protection with pesticides
 Herbicides - are suitable for killing actively growing weeds. They

cannot eliminate weeds at the same time, but farmers use them
before sowing or preventing new pests.
 Insecticides - are aimed at controlling insects. Several types of
crop protection chemicals are applied in the soil (e.g., against
worms), and others are used to treat foliage (e.g., against moths
and aphids).
 Fungicides - in crop protection are used to control disease-causing
fungal organisms. They allow increasing yield during the growing
season and preserve stored products.
Exclusion
 Known as the strategy for controlling disease
 Can be practice on a national, state, regional or individual
property basis.
Exclusion of plant diseases consist of crop practices designed to
keep;
 Pathogens (things that causes diseases)
 Vectors (thing that spread diseases)
Goal of this method

 To prevent the diseases from entering the area where the
plants are growing. Example; Never plant diseased or
infested plants
 To established plants in areas where the disease organism
does not occur.
Eradication
Consist of eliminating, destroying or inactivating a disease
organism after it has become established.
This includes:
 Destruction of infested plants
 Disinfection of storage bins, containers and equipment
 Soil disinfection by fumigation, pasteurization, solarization or
drenching.
Protection
Establishes a chemical or physical barrier between the host
and the cause of the disease. Example:
 There are chemical applications available to prevent a disease
from becoming established, such as fungicidal dust and
nematicides (nematodes control)
Resistance
This method of control focuses on planting resistant varieties.
 Resistance is achieved by altering the genetic system of the
host to make it less susceptible to the disease organism.
Therapy
This method of plant disease management is achieved by
incorporating a chemical control agent into the physiological processes
of the plant to reverse the progress of disease development after
infection has occurred.
Used of this principle is limited by the relatively small number of
systemic materials available.
Pest of fruit crops

 Mango hoppers
 Sucking pest
 Mango stem borer
 Mango fruit fly
 Fruit feeders
 Mango nut weevil or stone weevil
 Mango leaf webber
 Citrus leaf webber
 Citrus fruit sucking moths
 Citrus butterfly
 Citrus psylla
 Citrus leaf miner
 Citrus stem borer
 Mealy bugs
 Fruit fly
 Tea mosquito bug
 Grape vine stem girdler
 Pomegranate butterfly
 Sapota leaf webber
 Cashew tree borer
 Banana Rhizome weevil
 Banana aphid
 Banana Pseudo stem weevil
 Grapevine flea beetle
 Grapevine mealy bug

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Crop protection – crop protection combines strategies, tools,

Advantages of crop protection for farmers are:

Types of Crop Protection

Weed Control - Tree fruit growers need to continually manage weeds

 Herbicides - are suitable for killing actively growing weeds. They

Goal of this method

Pest of fruit crops

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