Disease management (agriculture)
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In agriculture
, disease management is the practice of minimising disease in crops to increase quantity or quality of harvest yield.
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
, disease management is the practice of minimising disease in crops to increase quantity or quality of harvest yield.
See also
- Corn smutCorn smutCorn smut is a pathogenic plant fungus that causes smut disease on maize and teosinte...
- Great Irish Famine
- blightBlightBlight refers to a specific symptom affecting plants in response to infection by a pathogenic organism. It is simply a rapid and complete chlorosis, browning, then death of plant tissues such as leaves, branches, twigs, or floral organs. Accordingly, many diseases that primarily exhibit this...