Pemanfaatan Teknologi Pengelolaan OPT Tanaman Sayuran Berbahan Baku Ramah Lingkungan di Kanagarian Candunang Kab Agam

Abstract

Activity of use management technologogy for pest and plant
disease control on vegetables based environment friendly in nagari
Paninjauan Kabupaten Tanah Datar has been carried out from June to
November 2014. This activity aims to improve farmers knowledge
about the diseases attack of vegetables and know how to manage the
disease using biopesticide and botanic biopesticide,
These activities include: Counseling and training, and
evaluation. Results of monitoring the level of disease in vegetable crops
is known that those plants attacked by pest and pathogens e.i, soft rot
(cabbage), anthracnosa, bacterial wilt and leaf spot (chili), tuber rot (
carrots) and bacterial leaf blight and Alternaria spots (onion leaves).
Attack rate ranged between 16 – 20% for disease and 15 – 30% for pest.
From the activities can be take several conclusions: (1) Extent of disease
in vegetable crops in this area is high, (2) The farmers do not yet
understand the causes of pest and plant disease ( pathogens) that attack
their vegetable crops, (3) The farmers do not understand the methods of
disease control using biopesticide and botanic biopesticide, (4) The
extension and field practice, have improved farmers' knowledge about
the management of vegetable diseases using biopesticides and botanic
biopesticide