Rubber Board prepared to fight diseases

It has a clinic that addresses any disease situation real-time

The Rubber Board has ruled out any cause for alarm over incidents of powdery mildew and corynespora, both leaf-fall diseases, this season as favourable conditions have helped rubber plants nearly escape the yearly cycle of mildew attacks.

Responding to reports that farmers in the upper reaches of Kothamangalam such as Neryamangalam and Adimali were seeing serious incidence of leaf-fall with extreme temperature differences between early morning hours and day time, board sources say the December-February period is re-foliage period when new leaves are generated.