DISEASE KNOWN FOUL shoots PALM

Bud rot disease (bud rot) should watch out for attacking oil perpetrator young plants. Making plant growth is not perfect.

The company that manages the plantation of oil palm plantations in Central America and South America made anxious by bud rot disease, known also shoots umbut or bud rot. In 2012, the disease appeared in the area of ​​South America that affects nearly 50 thousand hectares.

Long before that, a disease that attacks the leaf shoots or buds would have attacked the countries in Central America and South America like Ecuador, Suriname, and Colombia in the early 1990s.

In the book written by Djoehana Setyamidjaja Coconut Planting, bud rot disease states also attacked oil plants as a result of the fungus Phytophthora attacks palmivora, Erwinia sp., Bacillus sp., Physiological disorders and allegedly caused by lightning strikes. Attack symptoms can be seen from the decay in the shoots or buds going young leaves before they grow out. After that, the decay is spreading to other parts around it. The impact, stem will die and wither. The older leaves will not result in base attacked and rot and become yellow.

In the article mentioned General Winardi pattern of transmission of this disease is still not known for certain, the media generally comes from the spread of fungal spores carried by the wind and insects, especially beetles. The nature of this disease attacked sporadically.

Palm trees located in wetlands must necessarily be vigilant because more intense attacks in the area. There are several symptoms of the disease include leaf bud rot pale, leaning and finally broken. Then little by little under yellow leaves bleak, not shiny, and become brown.

The most worrying attacks are at the point where the stem grows here will hollowed out yellow liquid that smells foul. If this is the case, the impact is felt oil crops are plants become stunted stems, contain less and grow abnormally

To control this disease can be done a number of options as contained in several references. Among other plants that have this disease before the growing point rot can be cut throughout the diseased tissue. The position of these networks is somewhat below the infected part. Once it can be applied to a systemic fungicide binomil with a dose of 5 grams per tree. Liquid fungicides are given on the part that has been withheld to protect against microorganisms. So that more optimal results fungicides can be added with adhesive grading AERO810, 5 ml dose. If the symptoms of the attack already felt quite heavy, then the tree should be immediately dismantled.

In order to prevent this disease, suggested the perpetrators palm plants so diligent in maintaining the cleanliness of the carrier medium does not stick. In addition, monitoring activities regularly and thoroughly is a good action before the plant actually developing the disease. (Qayuum Amri)