Plant Protection Department

The Plant Protection Department conducts technologies and new approaches to facilitate and lead to  reduce damage and high maintaining yield. The main effort followed by plant protection of cotton is focused on monitoring and studying of bio-ecology of insects, diseases and weeds, crop loss assessment and identification of cultivar resistant to biotic agents.

Some of the department’s achievements:

ü Assessment of composts on Verticillium wilt disease

ü Monitoring and tracing of cotton bacterial blight

ü Study of epiphytic characteristics of causal agent of cotton bacterial blight in cotton fields

ü Bio-ecological study of cotton bollworm, spiny worm and red bollworm

ü Assessment of new pesticides against cotton pest and diseases

ü Study of agronomical methods efficacy on cotton pest, diseases and weeds in cotton fields