PEST AND DISEASE

MANAGEMENT IN GUAVA
By
Omprakash kumar singh
Bsh-09-039
 INTRODUCTION
Guava is hardy, aggressive, and a perennial tree that has
recently become a cultivated crop of subtropical regions.
It is scientifically Psidium guajava and belongs to the
family Myrtaceae.

Guava trees are seriously damaged by the citrus flat mite.

Pests Diseases
•Tea mosquito bug •Wilt
•Aphids •Red rust
•Mealy bugs •Anthracnose
•Fruit fly •Canker
•Guava shoot borer •Phytophthora fruit rot
•Guava weevil •Dry rot
•Thrips, etc. •Damping off
 Wilt:
Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. psidii
Symptoms Management
1.Yellowing of leaves 1.Cultural method- clean
2.Drowsiness with yellow to cultivation i.e., uproot
reddish discoloration wilted tree, timely and
3.Bare and dry twigs adequate manuring
2.Chemical method-
4.Hard, underdeveloped,
stony fruits injection of 0.1% water
soluble 8 quinolinol
5.Entire plant defoliated and sulphate. It provide
dead within 15 days from protection for 1 year in
full wilting upto 1 year in disease affected area.
some cases
Other wilt causing agents are
Rhizactonia bataticola
Macrophomina phaseolina
Fusarium solani
Gloeosporium psidii
 Anthracnose:
Colletotrichum psidii
Symptoms • Management
Pinhead spots on unripe • Resistant variety like apple
fruits that are dark brown guava are used In affected
in color, sunken, circular. area.
• Sprays of Bordeaux mixture
Creamy spore masses in at 7 day interval
moist weather. • COC and cuprous oxide are
Unripe fruit become corky also significant in
and harder and develops controlling the disease
cracks. • Monthly spray of
Difolatan(0.3%) closely
Leaves have necrotic followed by Dithane Z-
lesions on the margin and 78(0.2%) is effective
tip
 Canker:
Pestalonia psidii
• Symptoms • Management
1. Occur on green fruits 1% Bordeaux mixture or
Appearance of minute , lime sulphur at 15 day
circular , necrotic area interval.
with elevated margins. Use of canker resistant
2. Fruits underdeveloped, cultivar like Safeda and
become hard, malformed Apple colour.
and mummified and drop Leaf extracts of Neem and
in large numbers Tulsi (Azadirachta indica
and Ocimum sanctum
respectively) inhibit spore
germination.
 Guava rust:
 Puccinia psidii
• symptoms • Management
• The pathogen can affect • Control of guava rust is
foliage, young shoots, based on the use of
inflorescences and fruit of fungicides.
guava. • Scouting fields for onset of
• Typical symptoms disease or during the times
associated with this disease of year when
include distortion, environmental conditions
defoliation, reduced growth are favorable for pathogen
and if severe, mortality. infection are recommended
• On fully expanded leaves, so that proper and timely
dark bordered, roughly fungicide applications can
circular brown lesions with be made.
yellow halos develop
Guava rust
 . Algal leaf spot:
Cephaleuros virescens
• Symptoms • Management
• Disease symptoms are exhibited • Algal leaf spot can be reduced by
on both abaxial and adaxial leaf maintaining tree vigor with
surfaces as orange, rust-colored, cultural techniques such as
dense silky tufts ranging from 5 proper fertilization and irrigation,
to 8 mm in diameter. proper pruning to enhance air
• Upon scraping away these spots, circulation within the canopy and
a thin, grayish white to dark- sunlight penetration, managing
colored, necrotic crust remains weeds and wider tree spacing.
on the leaf. • Managing insect, mite and other
foliar diseases increases tree
vigor and lessens susceptibility to
this disease.
• Spray Copper oxychloride 0.25%.
Leaf spot symptoms
 Damping off:
Rhizoctinia solani
• Pre emergence – infected Management
seeds and seedlings show •Seedling treated with
soaked discoloration Bavistin @ 3g/Kg seed
• Post emergence – controls the disease quite
hypocotyl is discolored effectively
into yellowish to brown
and later turn soft and
constricted.
• Such seedlings ultimately
toople over and die
Tea mosquito bug
• Control
1. Spray Endosulfan 35 EC at
the rate of 2 ml/lit or
alathion 50 EC at the rate of
1 ml/lit or Monocrotophos
36 WSC @ 2ml/lit or neem
oil 3 %.
2. Spraying should be done in
early mornings or late
evenings, at least four times
at 21 days interval during
fruiting season.
Aphids
Control
Spray Monocrotophos 36
WSC @ 1ml/lit or
Dimethoate 30 EC @ 2
ml/lit to control aphids.
Mealy bugs
Control
1.The mealy bugs can be
controlled by spraying
Triazophos @ 2ml/lit +
neem oil 5 ml or phosalone
0.05% + neem oil 5 ml.
2.Release of Cryptolaemus
montrouzieri beetles
(Coccinellid beetles) @ 10
beetles /tree is also
recommended.
Fruit fly
Control
1.Remove the fallen fruits and bury them
deeply with Lindane 1.3% dusted over
them. 
2.Spray Endosulfan 35 EC or Malathion
50 EC @ 1 ml/lit four times at 15 days
interval. 
3.Stir the soil around the tree during pest
incidence and dust Lindane 1.3%.
4. Use polythene bags fish meal trap with
5 gm of wet fish meal + 1 ml. dichlorvos
in cotton.
5. 50 traps are required/ha, fish meal
and Dichlorvos soaked cotton are to be
renewed once in 20 and 7 days
respectively.
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