{ "RiceLeafs": [ { "disease_name":"BrownSpot", "cause":"It is fungal disease spread via seeds.", "remedy":"This can be avoided by the use of preventive measures by soaking seeds in Captan or Thiram at 2.0g /kg of seed. Can use antibiotic also to prevent the disease.", "link":"https://agritech.tnau.ac.in/expert_system/paddy/cpdisbrownspot.html" }, { "disease_name":"Hispa", "cause":"Damage is caused by the adults and larvae of the rice hispa, Dicladispa armigera. Adult beetles scrape the upper surface of leaf blades leaving only the lower layer.", "remedy":"several chemical formulations containing the following active ingredients could be used to control populations: chlorpyriphos, malathion, cypermethrin, fenthoate.", "link":"https://plantix.net/en/library/plant-diseases/600098/rice-hispa" }, { "disease_name":"LeafBlast", "cause":"This disease is caused by a fungus named Pyricularia grisea, which overwinters in rice seeds and infected rice stubble.", "remedy":"Use fungicides at the late boot stage and again when 80 to 90 percent of plants are headed. Growing rice, in fields where flood levels are easily maintained.", "link":"https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/mp645" } ] }