Question

Which technique of disease control in nursery-raised fruit and forest tree seedlings uses transparent polythene sheets to trap solar heat and raise soil temperature to levels lethal for many soil-borne pathogens, nematodes and weed seeds, offering an eco-friendly alternative to chemical soil fumigation?

Q: Answer-Which technique of disease control in nursery-raised fruit and forest tree seedlings uses transparen...

Soil solarization uses transparent polythene sheets to trap solar heat and raise soil temperature to levels lethal for many soil-borne pathogens, nematodes and weed seeds over several weeks of exposure during hot, sunny periods, offering an eco-friendly alternative to chemical soil fumigation for nursery and seedbed disease management.