Management
- Treatment of seed rhizomes
with mancozeb 0.3% for 30 minutes before storage and once again before planting
reduces the incidence of the disease.
- Cultural practices such as
selection of well drained soils for planting is important for managing the
disease, since stagnation of water predisposes the plant to infection.
- Seed rhizomes are to be
selected from disease free gardens, since the disease is also seed borne.
- Once the disease is located
in the field, removal of affected clumps and drenching the affected and
surrounding beds with mancozeb 0.3% checks the spread of the disease.