Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl virus disease

Common Name

Scientific Name

Issue

Viral

Causes

High tempratures and low rainfall, presence of white flies, infected transplants, weedy fields

Prevention

Cultural practices- practice crop rotation, use of resistant/ tolerant varieties, protect seedbeds with white nylon, plant barrier crops like maize, mulching fields with saw dust, no planting of crops susceptible to white flies near tomatoes, eradicate we

Control

Use of synthetic pesticides and pulling out of diseased seedlings.