PEST INFORMATION
A pest is any animal, insects or plant harmful to humans or human concerns.
The term is particularly used for creatures that damage crops, livestock, and forestry or cause a nuisance to people, especially in their homes.
RATS
Posted by Dexter Jarogon 2023-11-07
Rats can cause serious damage to rice and losses of 5% to 60%, or even 100% at seedbed. They are destructive in all stages of rice growth, reaching its peak at grain maturity stage.Rats are also storage pests which feed on and contaminate stored produce. They are difficult to manage because they reproduce rapidly in high numbers and their life span is long.Download PDF
Bureau of Plant Industry - Crop Pest Management Division
BROWN PLANTHOPPER
Posted by Dexter Jarogon 2023-11-07
Brown plant hoppers (BPH), can be a problem in rainfed and in irrigated wetland environments. Adults and nymphs cause direct damage by sucking the sap at the base of the tillers causing plants to turn yellow and dry up rapidly.Heavy infestation creates brown patches of dried plants known as hopperburn. They also transmit viral diseases such as ragged stunt and grassy stunt.Download PDF
Bureau of Plant Industry - Crop Pest Management Division
TUNGRO & GREEN LEAF HOPPER
Posted by Dexter Jarogon 2023-11-07
Tungro is one of the most damaging and destructive diseases of rice in the Philippines.It is a viral disease caused by two different viruses: the rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTBV) and the rice tungro spherical virus (RTSV). Green leafhoppers (GLH) transmit these viruses from infected plants to healthy plants.It causes leaf discoloration, stunted growth, reduced tiller numbers and sterile or partly filled grains. In severe cases, tungro susceptible varieties infected at an early growth stage could have as high as 100% yield loss.
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Bureau of Plant Industry - Crop Pest Management Division