Farmers Agronomic Practice in Management of the Tomato (Solanum lycopersicon L.) Yellow Leaf Curl Virus in Central Region of Ghana
Keywords:
Tomato yellow leaf curl virus, disease incidence and severity, farmers’ agronomic practices, disease management methodsAbstract
The study assessed farmers’ awareness of the Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) disease and their agronomic and disease management practices in the Efutu municipality, Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem (KEEA), and Mfantseman districts which are leading tomato producing centres in the Central Region of Ghana. The study also surveyed the incidence and severity of the TYLCV disease in tomato fields across the three districts. Household data were collected using structured questionnaire from 150 respondents using multi-stage procedure, and analysed using descriptive statistics. Incidence (DI) and severity index (SI) of TYLCV disease were determined from forty (40) tomato fields selected from each of the three districts. The field data was subjected to analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the means separated with least significant difference (l.s.d) method at 5% level of probability.Majority of the farmers (92.6%) were aware of the TYLCVdisease and said it could cause yield losses rangingfrom less than 10% to over 41% but did not know the cause.Majority (60.4%) of the farmers managed the TYLCV disease in their farms mainly by applying insecticides (55.6%) and roguing of diseased plants (43.1%). About 60.7% of the farmers practiced mixed cropping, and most of them cultivated tomato in both the major and minor cropping seasons, using mainly an improved form of Solanum pimpinellifolium. The highest mean disease incidence and mean disease severity indices were recorded at KEEA (52.9±2.7%, 26.89±1.2%), followed by Efutu (49.5±1.19%, 25.29±0.9%), and Mfantseman (42.1±2.7%, 21.41±0.8%) respectively.In conclusion, TYLCV was highly prevalent in the study area, but infection was moderate due to the use of improved tomato variety.ÂReferences
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Asante, B. O., Osei, M. K., Dankyi, A. A., Berchie, J. N., Mochiah, M. B. L., Lamptey, J. N., Haleegoah, J., Osei, K. and Bolfrey-Arku, G. (2013).Producer characteristics and determinants of technical efficiency of tomato based production systems in Ghana. Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics. 5(3), 92-103. doi:10.587/JDAE2012.054
Arya, P. S. (2002). A textbook of vegetable culture. New Delhi, India: Kalyani Publishers.
Asare-Bediako,E., A. Addo-Quaye, A., B. Boakye, B. Sarbah J. M., Asante, P. and Dorm, E. (2015). Incidence and severity of viral and fungal diseases of chili pepper (Capsicum frutescens) in some districts in Ghana. International Journal of Plant and Soil Science 7(3): 147-159, 2015.
Asare-Bediako, E., Van der Puije, G.C.,Taah, K.J., Abole, E.A.and.Baidoo, A. (2014). Prevalence of okra mosaic and leaf curl diseases and Podagrica spp. damage of okra (Albelmoschus esculentus) plants. International Journal of Current Research and Academic Review. 2(6): 260-271.
Chomdej, O., Chatchawankanpanich, O., Kositratana, W., & Chunwongse, J (2007). Response of resistant breeding lines of tomato germplasm and their progenies with seed to Tomato yellow leaf curl virus, Thailand isolate (TYLCTHV-[2]). Songklanakarin Journal of Science Technology, 29(6):1469-1477.
Glick, E., Levy, Y., and Gafni, Y. (2009). The viral aetiology of Tomato yellow leaf curl disease. Annals ofPlant Protection Science, 45(3), 81-97.
Horna, D., Smale, M., and Falck-Zepeda, J. (2006). Assessing the potential economic impact of genetically modified crops in Ghana: tomato, garden egg, cabbage and cassava. PBS report, October 2006. Retrieved from dhorna@cgiar.org. on 23th October 2013.
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Imran, M., Shakeel, A., Azhar, F. M., Farooq, J., Saleem, M. F., Saeed, A., Nazeer, W., Riaz, M., Naeem, M. and Javaid, A. (2012). Combining ability analysis for within-boll yield components in upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). Genetics and Molecular Research, 11(3), 2790-2800.
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Marley, P. S. (2004). Effects of integrating host plant resistance with time of planting of fungicides on anthracnose, grain mold and yield of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) in the Nigerian Northern Guinea Savannah. Journal of Agricultural Science, 142,345-350.
MoFA. (2011).Agriculture in Ghana: Facts and Figures. Statistics, research and information directorate. Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Accra. Ghana Retrieved from http://mofa.gov.gh/site/wp-content/ uploads/2014/03/AGRICULTURE-IN-GHANA-FF-2012-nov-2013.pdf on 16th May 2014.
Nagaraju, N., Venkatesh, H. M., Warburton, H., Muniyappa, V., Chancellor, T. C. B., and Colvin, J. (2002). Farmers' perceptions and practices for managing Tomato leaf curl virus disease in southern India, International Journal of Pest Management, 48, 333-338.
Never, M., Nyeverwai, G., Dadirayi, M., Maponga. M. V. T. G. and Edga, M. (2014). Adoption of the “Conservation farming†practice in maize production by small holder farmers in the Makoni District of Zimbabwe.International NGO Journal, 9 (1), 1-10. doi: 10.5897/INGOJ2013.0281.
Norman, J. C. (1974). Some observations on the performance of thirteen tomato cultivars at Kumasi, Ghana.Ghana Journal of Agricultural Science, 7, 51-56.
Ntow, W. J. (2001). Organochlorine pesticides in water, sediment, crops and human fluids in a farming community in Ghana. Archives ofEnvironmental Contamination and Toxicology, 40(4), 557-563.
Obeng-Ofori D, Yirenkyi-Danquah E, Ofosu-Anim J. (2007). Vegetable and spice crop production in West Africa. Accra, Ghana: Sam Woode Ltd.
Olaniyi, J.O., Akanbi, W.B., Adejumo, T. A. and Akande, O.G. (2010). Growth, fruit yield and nutritional quality of tomato varieties. African Journal of Food Science, 4(6), 398-402.
Oliver, P. (2006). Purposive sampling. SAGE research method, 245-246. Retrieved from doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9780857020116.
Osei, M. K., Akromah. R., Lamptey, J. N. L. and Quain, M. D. (2012). Phenotypic and molecular screening of some tomato germplasm for resistance to Tomato yellow leaf curl virus disease in Ghana. Africa Journal of Agricultural Research, 7(33), 4675-4684.
Osei, M. K., Akromah R., Shih, S. L., Lee, L. M. and Green, S. K. (2008). First report and molecular characterization of DNA of three distinct begomoviruses associated with Tomato leaf curl disease in Ghana. Plant Disease, 92(11), 1585B
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Xiong,W., Li, Z.,Liu, H.,Xue,C.,Zhang, R,Wu H,, Li, R. and Shen, Q. (2015). The effect of long-termcontinuous cropping of black pepper on soil bacterial communities as determined by 454 pyrosequencing.PLoSONE10(8):e0136946.doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0136946
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Asare-Bediako, E., Mensah-Wonkyi, D., van der Puije, G., & Abole, E. A. (2017). Farmers Agronomic Practice in Management of the Tomato (Solanum lycopersicon L.) Yellow Leaf Curl Virus in Central Region of Ghana. Journal of Agricultural Extension, 21(2). Retrieved from https://journal.aesonnigeria.org/index.php/jae/article/view/1032
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