Dept of Agriculture Development 
SFAC KeralaAnthracnose is a general term used to describe diseases that cause dark, sunken lesions on leaves, stems, flowers, and fruits. If affect leaf and stem and produce submissive brown spots. On fruit initially brown superficial discoloration of the skin develops which are circular and slightly sunken.
Then they coalesce in which sparse mycelia! growth appear on the margins of a spot. Under humid condition salmon pink spores are released. Fruits mummified, deformed and rotted. (C.0: Gloeosporium papayae).
Spray Carbendazim 50 WP (1 gram/litre of water) or Chlorothalonil 0.2% or Mancozeb 75 WP (3 gram/litre of water) or Copper oxychloride 50 WP (2 gram/litre of water) or Bordeaux mixture 1%.
