Disease and Symptoms

Active Ingredient

Commonly used Agrochemicals

Leaf Blotch

Infection is characterized by purplish to brown blotches and in later stages by large necrotic spots. These spots often occur at the end of a leaflet and are wedge-shaped. This fungus can also attack the fruit stalk, cap, and fruit.

Carbendazim 500g/l 

mancozeb 80%

Metalaxyl 8% WP + Mancozeb 64%

PEARL Extra®500SC

Oshothane® 80WP 

Matco® 72WP 

Leaf Spot

Begin as round purple spots on upper leaf surfaces. Center of the spot becomes tan or gray, then almost white with a purple border. Can attack immature petioles, fruit stalks, runners, and caps of susceptible cultivars.

Copper oxychloride 50%

Difenoconazole (250G/L)

CUPRAVIT 50 WP

DOMAIN 25% EC

Gray mold (Botrytis) 

Major fruit rot disease of strawberries. Infection usually starts early in the season as blossom blight, blighting of the buds and blooms and rotting of the green or ripe berries. It progresses downwards infecting the berries, stems, and leaves.

Chlorothalonil (720G/L)

Thymol (6.4%)

Geraniol (6.4%) 

Eugenol (3.2%)

KATERINA 720 SC

HAWK 16 CS

Downy Mildew

Pale green to yellow spots form on the upper surface of leaves, and later turn brown. Leaf spots are angularly bounded by leaf veins.  Dark purplish-grey fuzz forms on the underside of the leaf

Mancozeb (700G/KG) 

Cymoxanil (60G/KG)

Fosetyl-aluminium (800G/KG)

Mancozeb 640G/KG

metalaxyl-M 40G/KG

Fosetyl-aluminium 80%

GLOBE 76 WP

FOSET 800WP

AMIDIL 68 WG 

CHANCETYL ELITE 80 WDG

Powdery Mildew

Appear as pale yellow leaf spots. White powdery spots can form on both upper and lower leaf surfaces, and quickly expand into large blotches.

azoxystrobin(250g/l)

Carbendazim(275g/l)

flusilazole(125g/l)

BEYOND 25 SC

DISCOVERY 400 SC

Damping off

Seedlings start falling over. In slightly older plants, the leaves lose their turgor or the leaf tips turn yellow,

Fosetyl aluminium 800g/kg

ALIAL 80 WP

Gummosis

The canker gradually grows darker, and the tissue collapses farther into a pronounced cavity, lined with a dark green, velvety layer of fruiting fungus. the appearance of a slightly water-soaked, paler-green area

Mancozeb (64%) 

Cymoxanil (8%)

Mancozeb (800G/KG)

MISTRESS 72 WP 

MILTHANE SUPER 

Leathery Rot 

 Occurs on either green or ripe fruits. The rotted area is light brown in the center and shades into purple at the edge. In the late stages of decay, the fruit becomes tough and leathery.

 Metalaxyl

/ Mefenoxam

 Ridomil Gold EC

Anthracnose fruit rot

Soft to firm brown to black spots on green fruits and dark purple spots on ripe fruits. The spots enlarge rapidly on the ripe fruits until the fruits rot. The surface of the lesion can become covered with pink to orange masses of spores.

Propineb (70%) 

Cymoxanil (6%)

Mancozeb (700G/KG)

MILRAZ WP 76

ZETANIL 76 WP

Pests and Symptoms

Active Ingredient

Commonly used Agrochemicals

Cucumber Beetle

Adults feed on leaves and can stunt plant growth. Look for holes and yellowing and wilting leaves. 

Lambda-Cyhalothrin (50G/L)

Thiamethoxam (250G/KG)

Azadirachtine (.03%)

DUDUTHRIN SUPER

FINAL FLIGHT

NIMBECIDINE

Vine borer

When you look at a wilting plant closely, you might notice holes near the base of the plant.

The first symptom of a borer attack is wilting of affected plants

 Lambda-Cyhalothrin (50G/L)

 DUDUTHRIN SUPER

Whitefly 

Exudation of sticky honeydew. It's feeding on squash frequently causes crop leaves to turn whitish or silver, hence the name Silverleaf whitefly.

Thiamethoxam (250G/KG)

Acetamiprid (200G/KG)

Azadirachtine (.03%)
Lambda-Cyhalothrin (25G/L)

FINAL FLIGHT 25 WG

MANIK 20 SP

NIMBECIDINE

TATA UMEME

Aphids

The infected plants have deformed leaves and a mottled appearance.

Pyrethrins (4%)

Acetamiprid (200G/KG)

Azadirachtine (.03%)

Cypermethrin|Alphamethrin (10G/L)

Lambda-Cyhalothrin (25G/L)

Lambda-Cyhalothrin (50G/L)

Thiamethoxam (250G/KG)

FLOWER DS EC 

MANIK 20 SP

NIMBECIDINE

TATA ALPHA 10 EC

TATA UMEME

DUDUTHRIN SUPER

FINAL FLIGHT

Thrips

Silver-grey patches on leaves and the black dots of their excreta indicate their presence in the crop. The vigor of the plant is reduced by the loss of chlorophyll.

Pyrethrins (4%)

Azadirachtine (.03%)

Cypermethrin|Alphamethrin (10G/L)

Lambda-Cyhalothrin (25G/L)

Abamectin|Avermectin B1 (18 g / l) 

Chlorantranilipole (45 g / l)

FLOWER DS EC 

NIMBECIDINE

TATA ALPHA 10 EC

TATA UMEME

VOLIAM TARGO 063 SC

Leaf miner

blotch-shaped mines in the leaves.

Azadirachtine (.03%)

Abamectin|Avermectin B1 (18 g / l) 

Chlorantranilipole (45 g / l)

NIMBECIDINE

VOLIAM TARGO 063 SC

Squash Vine Borer

Leaves of the plant will likely start to wilt inexplicably. Look for holes at the base of the plant.

Cypermethrin|Alphamethrin (10G/L)

TATA ALPHA 10 EC

Jassid

Sucks sap from the underside of leaves and leaf buds. When jassids are abundant, cotton growth is stunted, the leaves turn downwards and heavy fruit loss may occur on pre-flowering plants. Leaves turn pale and a rust-red colour develops at the edges. During a severe attack, leaf shedding occurs.

Lambda-Cyhalothrin (25G/L)

TATA UMEME 2.5 EC

Squash beetles

Feeding on leaves produces small white dots, or   stipples, and leaves will eventually appear tattered.

Large numbers of squash bugs will cause leaves to yellow and die 

Acetamiprid (200G/L)

TWIGA ACE 20% SL

Spider mites

This injury produces tiny white or yellow spots or "stippling" on leaves and needles.

The plant looks bronzed and has a yellowed discoloration.

Webbing indicates a spider mite infestation.

Abamectin|Avermectin B1 (18 g / l) 

Chlorantranilipole (45 g / l)

VOLIAM TARGO 063 SC

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