Potato Growers provided with improved tools to tackle PCN

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Potato Growers provided with improved tools to tackle PCN

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The findings from on-farm trials could help combat a deadly potato disease that causes around £26 million worth of damage to crops in the UK each year.

According to demonstrations carried out by AHDB Potatoes and Harper Adams University, the use of fluopyram, previously used as a fungicide, as a nematicide provided a yield increase to a range of potato varieties at a farm with very high levels of Potato Cyst Nematode (PCN).

Release Date:
Thu, 02/08/2018

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