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Rhizome Weevil
Plant disease guide · TerraceFarming
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What causes Rhizome Weevil?
Grubs bore into the corm, weakening the plant base.
How to treat Rhizome Weevil
Use clean, hot-water-treated planting material and remove all old banana stumps and infested pseudostems from the field. Set up pseudostem or disc-on-stump traps to capture adult weevils for manual destruction. Apply Beauveria bassiana or Metarhizium anisopliae to the soil around plants or on traps.
How to prevent Rhizome Weevil
Select healthy suckers and dip in a clay slurry with Neem cake.
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