Protect groundnuts from disease

42. The disease which most often attacks groundnuts is called rosette.

This disease is carried by small insects which prick the leaves.

There is a product that kills these insects. But this product costs too much; the expense would not be repaid by the harvest.

43. You can protect your groundnuts in other ways.

- Sow rosette- resistant varieties;

- Sow at the right momentthen, the plants will be strong by the time the disease arrives;

- Cultivate oftenlike this you let the air into the soil and remove the weeds, so that air can circulate better among the leaves;

- Apply fertilizersthese make the plants strong;

- Never grow groundnuts two years running on the same field.