Skip to main content

Disease management in Paddy

Rice Tungro Virus: RTV

Causal Organism: The virus is transmitted by the Green leaf hopper.

Symptoms:

  • The diseased plants exibit orange yellow discolouration of leaves from the tip downwards.  
  • The young leaves show mosaic mottling. The plants are dwarfed with poor tillering and become sterile.

Control:

  • Grow resistant varieties like IR-20, Ratna etc.  
  • Spray Dyzinon a.i. @ 1.5 Kg/ha 5 times. First spray10 days after sowing and rest after transplanting at 15, 30, 45 and 60 days.
  • Use light trap to attract and control the leaf hopper vector.
0
Your rating: None Average: 2 (1 vote)

Tungro Virus management

A product for Virus can be used in combination with insecticide like Imida etc. The product is sold by many brand names:

GUJCO VIRCON

D-VIRUS

VIRUS CURE

VIROKILL 

Please note that this is the opinion of the author and is Not Certified by ICAR or any of its authorised agents.