3. INTRODUCTION
The Potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from
the perennial Solanum tuberosum of
the Solanaceae family.
It is the world's fourth-largest food crop,
following rice, wheat, and maize.
India ranking 3rd in potato production after
China and Russia.
4. POTATO (NUTRITIONAL VALUE)
Potato, raw, with skin
Nutritional value per 100 g
Energy 321 kJ (77 kcal)
Carbohydrates 19 g
Starch 15 g
Dietary fiber 2.2 g
Fat 0.1 g
Protein 2 g
Water 75 g
Thiamine (Vit. B1) 0.08 mg (7%)
Riboflavin (Vit. B2) 0.03 mg (3%)
Niacin (Vit. B3) 1.1 mg (7%)
Vitamin B6 0.25 mg (19%)
Vitamin C 20 mg (24%)
Calcium 12 mg (1%)
Iron 1.8 mg (14%)
Magnesium 23 mg (6%)
Phosphorus 57 mg (8%)
Potassium 421 mg (9%)
Sodium 6 mg (0%)
8. CONTROL OF WEEDS
Mechanical procedure
By manual plough
By Spades
Chemical procedure
Pre-emergence i.e. Pendimethiline
Post-emergence i.e. Metri, Quizalofop,
Fenoxaprop, Propaquizafop,
Late post-emergence i.e. Paraquat dichloride
12. Poor Plant
Health
Diseases Insects
Black Scurf
Late blight
Early blight
Black Leg or
soft rot
Common scab
Nematodes
Leaf Rol
White grubs
Fusurium
dry rot
Rhizoctonia
canker
13. PLANT HEALTH
Planting
Stage
HPMGOL
D Gr
4kg/acre
Sprout
developmen
t
28-35 days
HPM
GOLD GR
4kg/acre
Vegetative
growth
42-70
Days
24 KARAT
400
ml/acre
Tuber
Initiation
77-84
Days
24 KARAT
400
ml/acre
Tuber
bulking
stage
84-98
Days
24 KARAT
400
ml/acre
Application
schedule
Healthy
Root
developmen
t
Healthy root
developmen
t and
Uniform
Germination
Productive
branching
and
vegetative
growth
Healthy and
pest free
tuber
formation
Help in to
produce
good quality
potato
Benefits
15. HPM GOLD GR
HPM GOLD - Imported Unique Product for Better
Crop Yield
HPM GOLD - Can be used at any Crop Stage
HPM GOLD - Early usage helps Crop to unfold its
Genetic Yield Potential
HPM GOLD - Stimulates the metabolic activities
& enhances the growth at early stage
16. HPM GOLD- ROLE IN SOIL
Improves Soil
structure &
Maintain the
pH
Improves
acid soils and
treats
aluminum
toxicity.
Source of
calcium and
sulfur for plant
nutrition.
Improves
water
infiltration.
Helps
reduce
runoff and
erosion.
17. HPM GOLD KEY BENEFITS ……….
BRAND Promote seed germination /
establishment of plants in response
to light
Promotes flowering in response to
day length
Provide Proteins with an attached
light absorbing chromophore.
Regulate transcription factors
involved in growth
21. WHITE GRUBS AND
NEMATODES
White Grub in Potato
Nematode infection
in Potato
• White grub causes loss both directly and indirectly in the
potato field.
• Directly they eat up the roots and tubers of potato
• Indirectly they also spread Potato scab bacteria from one
plant to other, thus controlling Whit grub becomes utmost
important.
Apply DEVSENA at the rate of 125g/ acre at the time of
planting, will effectively control the white grub and help in the
suppression of nematodes infestation in the field.
• Nematodes are becoming important in the
potato fields.
• Nematodes impact in the root system of the
plant, thus severely effecting the plant
growth and productivity.
22. LEAF ROLLVector :- Aphids
Apply 7 STAR @ 100gm /acre on the first observation of the symptoms in the field
• Potato leaf roll is a serious problem in potato, especially during
hot weather conditions.
• The leaf roll virus is disseminated by aphids, thus control of the
aphid is a effective solution for the management of leaf curl
infection
• Prolong delay in the control of the virus can lead to reduced tuber
size
and lead to substantial reduction in the tuber yield
24. BLACK SCURF
• It can be found on all the underground parts of the plant at different
stages during growing season
• In Black scurf disease the fungus forms dark brown to black hard
masses on the surface of the tuber in field as well as in storage.
• The diseases is also known as the cosmetic disease, as it mainly
reduces the quality of the potato, thus reducing the marketability and
price of the produce.
• As the disease reduces the market price of the produce, thus greatly
impacting the farmer earnings
As the disease is tuber and soil borne and mainly spreads from Tuber, thus seed
treatment is the best way to reduce the incidence of Black Scurf.
VIP 500 ML + Batista 250 ML for 25-30 qtl potato seed gives excellent result to
control Black scurf
25. FUSURIUM DRY ROT SEED PIECE DECAY
Symptoms
• Externally, tubers may have sunken or wrinkled areas and an occasional white or pink fungal growth.
• Internally, tubers develop a crumbly dry decay ranging from dark brown (chocolate colored) to black.
• In addition, cavities often develop in the rotted tissue that contains the white or pink fungal growth.
• A moist rot may occur if tubers are invaded by a secondary infection with soft rot bacteria.
• Mostly this disease leads to losses during storage, thus gets unnoticed
Seed treatment with a
VIP can cure the
disease
26. BLACK LEG OR SOFT ROT
• The introduction is always through a wound in the plant
tissue and the tuber
• The bacteria dissolve the cell walls and liquefy the tuber
innards
• The infected tuber gives rotten smell
• Sometimes the plant will be produced from the infected
tuber, but they are weak and sometimes do not lost long.
• Leads to losses in the crop stand and quantity of yield
Seed treatment
with BATISTA
200gm + VIP 500
ml for 25-30 Qtl
Tuber
27. • Prophylactic application of SUPER HIT @ 600 Gm /acre will
help in
suppressing the disease
RHIZOCTONIA CANKER
• Symptoms
• On Stems and stolons
• Symptoms are brownish black sunken lesions on underground stems
and stolons.
• The disease may cause non-uniform stands of weak, spindly-looking
plants.
• Dark stem lesions occurring below the soil line may girdle the main
stem, resulting in yellowish or purplish leaves that curl upwards./
• The fungus may develop a white powdery mold growth on the stems
that extends just above the soil line.
• Tubers
• The fungus forms sclerotia .
• The sclerotia vary from netted or scurfy residues to individual black
masses on the tuber surface. Tubers may be misshapen, cracked, or
may develop a russet like skin.
29. LATE BLIGHT OF POTATO
Late blight lesions with chlorotic halo Late blight lesion that has dried & become
brittle
Late blight on stem, leaves with
sporulation.
Symptoms- Foliar
• All the above and below ground plant parts will be infected by the disease
• Small light- to dark-green water-soaked spots, often with a chlorotic halo appear on the leaves.
• Lesions enlarge rapidly and turn brown or purplish black.
• The lesions are not limited by veins, and they coalesce as new infections occur, blighting and killing the
entire leaf. If the lesions dry out, the leaf becomes very brittle.
• Lesions may occur on petioles or stems but leaves still appear green and healthy .
• Later Stages Sporulation can be observed on the aerial parts of the plant.
• Late blight is the most destructive disease of Potato and can destroy the entire field with in days.
• Late blight spreads through air, thus protecting the plant from the infection from infected plants is
utmost important
• As the disease spreads very fast thus, a regular habitual spay is must for the control of the disease
30. MANAGEMENT LATE BLIGHT OF
POTATO
• Use healthy seed only
• Destroy culled infected tubers after taking out from cold stores
• Make the ridges high to avoid contact of water with plants
• Spray the crop with STUFF 500 gm /acre before rainy spell.
• Spray SUPER HIT @ 600 gm /acre under high disease risk conditions.
(Ensure thorough coverage of plant foliage)
LAYBY can use as
• Preventive
- Before the occurrence of disease
– Weather conditions
– Crop stage
• Early Curative.
• - Just after the disease symptoms observed
– Disease in 2-3 plants.
31. For a pesticide to perform its function properly a spray
droplet must be able to wet the foliage, spread out
evenly over a leaf and must get into the system before
the solution gets air dried on the leaf.
Big sized spray droplets often run off or fall from leaf
surface
AASRA increase SWATH of spray fluid on plant canopy.
AASRA promotes rapid uptake of agrochemicals aqua
solutions.
AASRA is must when applying a pesticide to hairy or
waxy leaves
AASRA enlarges the area of pesticide coverage there by
increasing the sucking pest exposure to chemical.
AASRA promotes spray volume reduction .
Effective water Vol +quality Spreader makes an effective
pest control .
AASRA– WETTING AGENT
- --- SURFACTANT .
AASRA - NECESSARY SOLUTION WHERE
INTERMITTENT RAINS
AASRA - ENHANCE FASTER CONTROL OF
SUCKING PESTS .
AASRA …. For Better result from spray
