CocoForce Fungicide | Curative | 50g

Description

CocoForce Fungicide

CocoForce is a curative fungicide used to control late blight disease in potato crops, and black pod disease in cocoa. The product is a contact and systemic fungicide for the control of blight diseases, downy mildew, and bacterial diseases in potato and cocoa plantations.

Active Ingredient

Copper Oxide 69 % + Cymoxanil 4.2% WP. Cymoxanil penetrates the leaves and quickly destroyed the already emerging pathogens. In this way consequently, the product stops the development of the mycelium and the effect of fungal pathogens and provides further normal development of the crops. The curative effect is best when the treatment is conducted in the first half of the incubation period

Tips for managing Fungal diseases on your farm

• Be committed to farm sanitation – clean up your farm and remove all weeds, and crop debris, and volunteer hosts
• Use resistant or tolerant varieties
• Use clean transplants and seed (and seed treatments)
• Monitor weather conditions (particularly temperature, humidity, and leaf wetness)
• Know relevant disease prediction models
• Understand the implications for irrigation timing and minimise free moisture and high humidity periods (e.g. irrigating at around 4 am rather than at dusk, not irrigating during peak periods of spore release)
• Appropriate crop rotations (long rotations with non-host crops may be necessary)
• Avoid heavily infested blocks by testing soil for soilborne diseases before planting
• Monitor crops regularly and be able to detect early symptoms on your crop
• Amend and manage soil to disadvantage the fungi (some fungal diseases can survive in the soil for 30 years or more)
• Minimise ways in which the disease can spread on-farm – remove and destroy sick plants when symptoms first show
• Understand the influence of planting time, plant spacing and overlapping crops
• Apply preventative fungicides based on weather conditions
• Understand fungicide resistance and rotation of chemical groups.