Monday, 3 September 2018

PRO/PL> Multiple diseases, ginger, black pepper, coffee - India: (KA,KL)

Other Plant Disease -- India
Ginger farms in Kerala and Karnataka [were] submerged in floods starting June [2018]. Ginger rhizomes have since been affected by the soft rot disease. Heavy rains in ginger growing districts flooded the fields. They wiped out rhizomes on almost 5000 hectares [about 12 360 acres] in Karnataka and 2500 hectares [about 6180 acres] in Kerala, [the] South Indian Ginger Growers' Association [said].
"Torrential rains have washed off black pepper vines in many parts of the 2 states," [the] Indian

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6003773&promed&0

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