Bud rot, a lethal disease affecting coconut trees, is spreading fast in the hilly tracts of Kasaragod district, providing yet another blow to the farmers, reeling under poor market for their produce.

The Kasaragod-based Central Plantation Crops Research Institute (CPCRI) has issued an advisory on the measures to be taken to control the fruit rot disease in arecanut plantations. An advisory issued ...

Bud rot and crown rot diseases along with fruit rot (mahali or kole roga) disease have resurfaced in some arecanut plantations in Dakshina Kannada. At present, the diseases have been reported from ...

FACED with the ever-present threat of the lethal yellowing and bud rot diseases which have depleted the coconut stock in Jamaica, the Coconut Industry Board (CIB) is seeking to expand the ...