SAGOPERFECT 320SC ANTHRACNOSE KILLER ON COFFEE TREE

Anthracnose causing dry branches and fruit is common in coffee gardens during the rainy season. The disease causes death of branches and dry fruits, severely affecting the canopy structure and coffee yield if not paying attention to prevention.

The disease usually appears on young parts, flowers and coffee berries. On young branches and young fruit, the lesions are black and indented. When the disease attacks on the stem of the fruit, it will make the fruit dry. On branches, if the weather is favorable, the disease will develop to cover the entire circumference of the branch and cause the entire branch and fruit above the disease to dry and fall.

Anthracnose is caused by  Colletotrichum gloeosporioides fungus . Coffee gardens  are planted thickly, over-fertilized with nitrogenous fertilizers, densely packed with weeds and with high humidity, suffer from severe disease. The disease also often arises and thrives in the rainy season, especially in the rainy, hot and humid months. Hot weather, combined with prolonged heavy rains, is a good condition for fungal diseases to have a chance to thrive. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to prevent this disease, in order to limit damage.

To prevent coffee anthracnose disease, it is necessary to apply some measures as follows:

- Plant coffee at an appropriate density, avoiding thick planting to ensure ventilation.

- There should be a good drainage system after rain, avoiding high humidity in the garden.

- During the rainy season, regularly clean the garden, eliminate weeds and prune dead and ineffective branches hidden in the canopy to create ventilation..

- Apply fertilizer in a reasonable balance, avoid fertilizing with excess nitrogen, because it will make the garden dense and susceptible to disease. Should use more foliar fertilizers such as SPC-K, or micronutrients TANO-601, spread SPC-CAL fertilizers to improve the soil. These fertilizers will help strengthen the plant disease resistance, while increasing the yield and quality of coffee.

However, when the disease has broken out in the garden, or when the coffee garden begins to get sick in the rainy months, it is necessary to use products to manage the disease in time and limit the harm.

Sagoperfect 320SC is a special product for the treatment of coffee anthracnose, newly introduced in the list of products used in Vietnam. Product is researched, coordinated and produced by Saigon Plant Protection Joint Stock Company in 2021.

* Outstanding features of Sagoperfect 320SC products:

- SAGOPERFECT 320SC is a new generation product with strong fumigation and internal absorption capabilities. The product has the ability to penetrate deeply into the leaves, internal absorption into the wood vessels. After absorption, the product is translocated inside the plant and moved to the young parts of the plant. Therefore, the product is less likely to be washed away by wind and rain, which can provide long-term protection of crops after application.

- SAGOPERFECT 320SC is a mixture of 2 new active ingredients, so it has high potency, broad spectrum of action, and is used to treat many important diseases on many crops. In the world, the active ingredients of the product are registered to prevent diseases such as anthracnose, rust, downy mildew, powdery mildew, leaf spot, ring spot on crops; rice blast, sheath blight, discoloration disease on rice

*Technology of product use:

In the rainy season, when anthracnose has just appeared on the coffee garden, we immediately spray Sagoperfect 320SC with a concentration of 0.15%, or mix 150 ml of product per 100 liters of water. The amount of water sprayed is 500-600 liters/ha, depending on the canopy.

*Some note:

- It is necessary to spray preventively once every 1-2 weeks in the rainy season, depending on the weather, little rain or rain for many days in a row.

- It is necessary to spray enough water so that the product is spread evenly throughout the canopy, in order to improve the control effect.

- Regularly check the coffee garden, to detect diseases and promptly handle them, in order to reduce damage, and reduce the cost of prevention.