Diseases, Insect-pests Of Okra: Their Symptoms And Control Measures

Okra or Lady Finger crops belong to the Malvaceae family. 🌱🌺 Okra is a yearly crop farmed for its bright flavor and green hue. 🟢🍽️ It includes vitamins, proteins, calcium, and other nourishing minerals. 💪🌿 Okra is cultivated all across the world, with India producing the most okra crops.

The symptoms of illnesses and pests that affect okra, often known as lady finger, are described in this article. 🦠🍂 Additionally, several preventative actions are given to safeguard okra cultivation. 🛡️🌱 For the best defense against diseases encouraging high-yield okra, we have purchased various preventive measures. 🌾🛡️ To learn how to use them and when, let's read about them. 📚👀

Table of Contents

1. Overview of Okra illnesses
2. Pests, parasites, and a fungus
3. Fruit and shoot borer
4.  Prevention

FAQs

1. Name some natural and biological control over okra disease.
2. How to make pesticides for okra diseases?

Overview of Okra illnesses

Okra is susceptible to fungus infections and illnesses due to poor drainage and dense clay soil. 🌱🍂 The roots of the okra suffer damage from verticillium wilt, and the leaves turn light or yellow, producing seeds. 🍃💧 According to sources, the spread of the virus causes the early symptoms and shriveling leaves to die. 🦠❌ Winter is when the fungus spreads and makes it impossible to treat with chemicals. 🌬️❄️ Okra roots are protected from fungal infections by heating or solarizing the soil with plastic sheets underneath. ☀️🌿

Pests, parasites, and a fungus

Infections in the okra crop result in vigor loss and dead leaves. 🌱🍂 Yellow and brown speckling is caused by red spider mites sucking the leaves. 🕷️💔 CHLOROPHYLL, nutrients, and protein are all taken by aphids that feed on leaves and stems. 🍃🦗 Both tobacco and whitefly nymphs cause damage by turning leaves yellow until they eventually fall off. 🌿🪰

It is possible to identify problems early on by regularly spraying insecticides, keeping an eye on the leaves, and taking precautions to avoid okra illnesses. 🌿🔍🛡️

Fruit and shoot borer

• Shoot and fruit borer

• The insect's larvae dig into the shoots during vegetative growth and impact the nodes, which causes the shoots to droop. 🌱🐛
• Spray the flubendiamide with 40–60 ml per acre of spinosad or flubendiamide added to 200 l of water. 🛢️🌿 Either eliminate the impacted areas. 🚫🔗

• Fruit borers

• Borer infections result in topping, leaf death, and withering in young plants, as well as harm to the central branches. Later, it enters the fruit and severely harms it. 🌱🪱🍂
• Clean cultivation and summer plowing lower the risk of okra borer. 🌞🌾 Spraying deltamethrin has been shown to be beneficial in controlling borer. 🛢️🪲

• Sucking pests

• Early-stage leaves that have undergone deformation or curling are infected. 🍃🦠 Aphid pests cause yellowing and curling of the afflicted leaves. 🌿🌼
• To stop the okra illnesses, use 300 ml/150 liters of water after 25–30 days of planting or remove the afflicted sections as soon as feasible. 🚿🌱🌞

 Prevention

• Yellow-vein mosaic                       

       

• Okra illnesses are characterized by a uniformly tangled web of yellow veins and the green tissue that surrounds them. 🍃🕸️
• Spray the oxydemeton methyl (0.02%) or dimethoate (0.05%) and 2% mineral oil mixture every 10 days. 🛢️🌿 Utilize hybrid varieties like Arka Anamika and Arka Abhay. 🌱

• Powdery mildew

• On the fruits and young leaves, a white powdery buildup becomes visible. 🍃❄️ Okra illness is indicated by the sluggish growth of fruit or by its falling. 🍈🌿
• Trimorph of 5 ml or Penconazal by 10 ml/10 liters of water over the course of 10 days, four times, or Wettable sulfur 25 gm/10 liters of water, both in the same amount. 

• Root rot

• Brown leaves are the first sign, and the plant eventually dies. 🍂🌱
• The best preventative measures are monocropping, crop rotation, soil solarization, and deep plowing. 🔄🌾
• Carbendazim 1g/liter diluted in water should be sprayed onto the soil before planting. 🛢️🌿

FAQs

Q1. Name some natural and pests to control okra disease.

- Lady beetles, parasitic wasps, spiders, and lacewings are typical okra disease pests. On the other side, crops that benefit from preventing okra infections include clover, alyssum, and parsley..

Q2. How to make home remedies to prevent okra diseases?

- Prepare a solution by combining 1 gallon of water with 2 tablespoons of liquid vegetable-based soap and color. The early okra crop will not be produced thanks to this pesticide.