When Durian Changed The Season

Becareful With Disease

Encouraged the fruitful durian apart from the season not without the hindrance. Seven trees monthong in Vincent's garden that was given by the treatment in 2004 died. Three months after the harvest, the leaves turned yellow, stick skin peel off, and the branch of the crack. None could be rescued. From the sign that was shown, Roedhy suspected that resulting from the Phythopthora attack palmivora. The rotten cause mushroom of the stick was easy attacked because of the condition for the weak crop after fruitful.

The other enemy, fusarium. The officer's durian that also was given by the treatment more kept threw. That the incident does not occur again, Daniel immediately fertilised like in the treatment of early that the fast crop is restored. The durian was left fruitful in accordance with the season. The treatment to overcome fusarium, the Etridiasol fungicide the dose 6 g/l and the combination 2 g/l Benlate with 4 g/l Delsene was injected in 4 points be at a distance 1 m. from the root system. The treatment of water stress only was effective to be followed with the availability of the sun rays. The sun rays were needed to photosynthesis the element of the nutrient became energy that was needed for the growth and the formation.

This was enabled if in the area his wet month only 2 months. The example like in NTT and partly East Java, said Reza. The other stumbling block, the economical value the crop after the treatment. The production in Wonosalam dropped as far as 35%. While the production cost increased from Rp70,000 per the tree per the season to Rp100,000 With the normal production assumption of the crop was 6 years totalling 30-40, old the production dropped was 20-25. When in general his weight 4 kg meant the production per the tree was 80- 100 kg. With the price in July Rp30,000, the income per the tree Rp2,4 million-Rp3 million. Currently farmers are remained counted, are they wanted to made the durian changing the season?