Dear Daniel Plant diseases ...

Dear Daniel

Plant diseases and pests can affect a wide range of commercial crops, and result in a significant yield loss. It is reported that at least 10% of global food production is lost due to plant diseases .Agriculture has increasingly become dependent on chemical pesticides to control the pests that damage the crops. Heightened concern over the environmental effects of pesticides, coupled with increased pest resistance and secondary pest outbreaks, severely limits the effective pesticides available to farmers. As weather patterns change, crops mature, and cattle graze pastures for food, farmers must decide when to irrigate pastures, apply fertilizer, or move cattle to another pasture. A farmer relies on a combination of experience, visual observation, intuition and he has to perform periodical surveys over a widespread plantation which is a time consuming activity. Acoustic detection technology is a far better substitute to these laborious tasks. Sugarcane takes 10-18 months to grow and is therefore liable to be attacked by a number of insects, pests and diseases. Its production declines by 19 - 20 % by their attacks. To increase the crop productivity, management of insect-pest and diseases is of great significance. Sugarcane is infested by about 288 insects of which nearly two dozen causes heavy losses to the quality as well as quantity of the crop.

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