{"id":61534,"date":"2025-09-01T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=61534"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:35:08","slug":"bordeaux-mixture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bordeaux-mixture\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordeaux Mixture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bordeaux Mixture Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Planters in the Chikkamagaluru and Hassan districts of Karnataka are gearing up to apply Bordeaux mixture for the third or fourth time this year, following earlier crop damage caused by unseasonal rainfall.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bordeaux Mixture<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bordeaux mixture is a <\/span><b>bactericide and fungicide<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> made by <\/span><b>mixing copper sulfate and lime (calcium hydroxide) with water.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Discovered <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the late <\/span><b>19th century in France&#8217;s Bordeaux region,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from which it takes its name, Bordeaux mixture has stood the test of time and <\/span><b>continues to be a reliable <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">solution for disease management, <\/span><b>particularly in organic farming systems.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This mixture is especially<\/span><b> effective in controlling fungal and bacterial diseases<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in various <\/span><b>crops such as fruits, vegetables, and plantation crops.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a <\/span><b>low aqueous solubility<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is <\/span><b>not volatile.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>persists in rainy weather <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and can provide <\/span><b>long-lasting protection<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against a variety of diseases.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bordeaux mixture is<\/span><b> usually applied after harvest, before rainy weather starts.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, because it <\/span><b>contains copper,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it has a <\/span><b>multi-site mode of action <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and may be a particularly useful spray in a pesticide resistance management program. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">However, <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">applying Bordeaux mixture to newly growing leaves<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, however, <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">can cause injury to the new growth.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/mysuru\/coffee-areca-farmers-worry-about-rot-disease-risk-amid-rain\/articleshow\/123619562.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TOI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bordeaux Mixture is a bactericide and fungicide made by mixing copper sulfate and lime (calcium hydroxide) with water. Read more about Bordeaux Mixture, Discovery, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":61550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2445],"class_list":{"0":"post-61534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-bordeaux-mixture","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}