India’s green chilli production stood at 38.51 lakh tonnes during 2019-20 according to the second advance estimates. This is higher than the previous year’s output of 37.83 lakh tonnes.

Bicholim: The agriculture department found that the chilli plantations in Mayem have been affected by the leaf curl virus ...

ToLCV severely affects crop yield in a variety of crops like papaya, chilli and tomato and causes the leaf curl disease. Efficient replication will generate more siRNA and consequent gene-silencing.

The Indian Institute of Horticulture Research (IIHR) has developed three hybrid chilli varieties that are resistant to multiple diseases such as phytopthora root rot (PRR) and leaf curl virus (LCV).

Among them, LCVH 24 (Arka Nihira), LCVH29 (Arka Dhriti), and LCVH 30 (Arka Gagan) consistently showed resistance to Phytophthora root rot and chilli leaf curl disease.

DISTORTED and discoloured foliage on stonefruit trees including peaches, nectarines and plums is caused by a fungal disease called leaf curl. Read Today's Paper Tributes. Rewards.

Curls can be cute on a person’s hair, on poodles, sheep, and, of course, on a pig’s tail. But they’re not so cute on trees or plants. 99.9% of us have seen leaf curl on citrus trees.

AMARAVATI: The widespread damage to chilli crops caused by leaf curl thrips has left farmers in a state of shock. The chilli cultivation area had gone up by nearly 30% over the last season as the ...

Barwani: Driven to distress after seeing their chilli crops affected by curl leaf virus, farmers in six villages of Rajpur sub-division uprooted their.