BIO-CONTROL OF CROP DISEASES
Many of our local plants contain helpful chemicals, particularly alkaloids, that are effective against fungal and bacterial diseases of other plants. Thus, they are mixed with the soil to control the fungus that causes the diseases of seedlings. Allow the leaves to decompose for about one week before transplanting the seedlings. Some of these leaves are as follows:
Coconut Shell Charcoal
There are many ways of charcoal making, but the simplest so far is the use of drum. The
method modified by the Forest Products Research and Industries Development (Los Baños)
are the following:
Nursery Plant Pots from Coconut Coir
Plants grow faster in pots made of coconut husk with coconut dust than in soil. For example,
nursery plants like:
1. Asparagus springerie - grown in coconut husk with equal amounts of dust and swine
marine had more cuttings than those planted in rice field with swine manure.
2. Anthurium - more flowers per plant.
3. Dracaena fragrans (leafy plant) - increased roots
4. Mussaendes - longer roots (with spagnum moss and coconut) during marcotting.
5. Amherstia nobilis - faster marcotting even without the use of growth hormones.
PCARRD
Balitang Pambukid
May 1987
