Monitoring and climatic data use for rubber plantation management

Abstract

Climate is a resource for growth and crop yield of rubber and many other crops. Climatic elements are needed to be recorded and interpreted and used for agronomic management. In this paper, the use of climatic data for the agronomic management of rubber plantation is presented. El Nino and La Nina has been known and could be anticipated 3 months earlier so that dealing with drought and wet condition can be anticipated in the rubber plantation. Climatic elements would be easier to be recorded by the automatic weather station. The observed climatic data could be used for calculation of water requirement for irrigation in the nursery, disease prevention, tapping management, planting time and potency of growth by using crop models.

Identification of Climate Influence on Upas Fungus (Corticium sp.) Disease Intensity on Rubber Plants (Hevea brasiliensis Muell.Arg.)

“…Numerous parasitic fungi obtain nourishment from host cells through hyphal walls that were pushed against the host's interior tissue cell walls. Others created haustoria (specialized absorption structures) that branch off from the intercellular hyphae and enter the cells [15].…”

“…Because most of the rubber plantations were located in high rainfall areas, water is frequently not considered a limiting factor [15]. To understand how best to control plant diseases to improve food security in the context of climate change, plant protection professionals must work with societal change, defining its key processes and influencers to effect change.…”