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Watch out for these diseases during the wet season

Plant diseases. There are nutrients that when they are lacking the plants leaves are yellow.

When rains come, farmers rejoice because it is a good thing. But even with this blessing called rains, there’s a downside. Excessive moisture can cause a number of problems for gardeners — crop diseases.

Most diseases caused by bacterial and fungal pathogens require free moisture to survive on leaves and other plant parts. Such conditions occur especially in vegetables, flowers and fruit crops. Most plant diseases cannot be cured but only controlled once a plant is infected.

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