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Alternative formulations for protection against oak powdery mildew

Company „Croatian Forest“ accepted the FSC principles and criteria to ensure forest management in a way that will, among other things, promote enviromentally responsible system or the protection of forests. The basic criteria regarding the use of pesticides are the use of environmentaly friendly, non- chemical methods of protection of forests from pests. Proven effective preparations will enable the forests to retain the necessary level of protection with environmentaly friendly pesticides, the impact on biodiversity and the stability of the forest would be reduced to a minimum and safety of Croatian forests to FSC certification will not be canceled. To protect against oak powdery mildew five environmentally acceptable pesticides were tested: Sakalia-2.5l/ha, Equisetum plus -1%, Milsana-0.25%, Vitisan-1.5%, Neem oil-3%. For the control treatment was repeated four times. Due to the rainy weather fungicides are applied only 27th June for the first time. After application of fungicides at intervals of four days the intensity of powdery mildew infection were assessed in five degrees. Fugicides are aplied for the second time on July 13 and intensity of infection was assessed three times every four days. Last score intensity of powdery mildew (24 July) showed that all the preparations provide very good protection against powdery mildew and preparation Vitisan even showed better performance than fungicides Artea plus. At the same time powdery mildew infection in the control plots was very strong.

Environmentaly friendly, Oak powdery mildew, Pesticides

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