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Sheath blight

Leaves infected with sheath blight senesce or dry out and die more rapidly. Young tillers can also be destroyed

Sheath rot

Sheath rot reduces grain yield by retarding or aborting panicle emergence, and producing unfilled seeds and sterile panicles. It also affects grain quality

Snails

Golden apple snails eat young rice plants and they cut the rice stem at the base, destroying the whole plant

Soil crusting

When soil experience crusting, the germinating seeds are unable to break the crust.

Soil too soft

Soils that are too soft have poor crop emergence and poor stand establishment.

Stem borer

Stem borers can destroy rice at any stage of the plant from seedling to maturity

Stem rot

Stem rot leads to formation of lesions and production of chalky grains and unfilled panicles

Tungro

Rice tungro disease is caused by two viruses and transmitted by leafhoppers. It is one of the most destructive diseases of rice in South and Southeast Asia

Zigzag leafhopper

In large numbers, zigzag leafhoppers can transmit viral diseases such as rice tungro, dwarf, and orange leaf viruses

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