Management

  • Use disease free planting material
  • Providing good drainage facilities
  • Rhizome dip in copper oxy chloride or zineb (0.3%) for 30 minutes before planting
  • Soil drenching with copper oxy chloride (0.25%) in and around affected plants
  • Soil application of Pseudomonas fluorescens talc formulation (2.5 kg/ha)