crop disease
Agricultural pathogen outbreak
Crop disease is any illness affecting cultivated plants, caused by fungi, bacteria, viruses, or other pathogens.
Crop diseases can devastate harvests and trigger famines: Potato blight caused the Irish famine.
Farmers combat crop disease through resistant varieties, pesticides, and crop rotation.
The term appears in agricultural science, policy discussions, and food security contexts.
- blightPlant disease causing decay
- leaf spotPlant disease symptom
- fungusSpore-bearing organism
- wiltLose vigor, sag
- root rotFungal underground plant disease
rot · mildew · rust · brown patch · infestation · harvest · pesticide · famine · yield · infection · spores · withering · drought · dust bowl · soil · parasite · pest control · plague
- crop threatspests, pest, blight, drought, insects
- farm hazardsdrought, frost damage, flood, hail damage, frost
- crop problemsblight, drought damage, root rot, wilting, insect damage
- farm disastersfailed harvest, drought, locust plague, locust swarm, pest infestation
- farm problemssoil erosion, soil depletion, water pollution, fertilizer runoff, overgrazing
- crop pestsaphids, aphid, armyworm, beetles, cutworms
crop diseaseinsect infestation
Harmful bug population explosion
weather damage · frost damage · nutrient deficiency · physical injury · drought damage
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