Day: 18 April 2019
Hitting the right spot with leaf disease management
Retired Yellow Sigatoka Liaison Officer Louis Lardi. Integrated management of yellow Sigatoka and other diseases in north Queensland (BA15003) By Dr Rosie Godwin, R&D Manager, Australian Banana Growers’ Council Yellow Sigatoka and leaf speckle, commonly referred to as “leaf spot”, are established and serious foliar diseases of…
Wanted, dead or alive – ground covers
Pinto peanuts used as a living ground cover established on a commercial banana plantation amongst Lady Finger bananas. Naturalised low growing grasses allowed to grow from the interrow into the banana row to provide a living ground cover. Dirty water leaving bananas with no ground…