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Pumpkins with downy mildew may be smaller in size and may be lower in quality. For example, because downy mildew causes the plant to lose its leaves, infected pumpkins may have areas that are sunken due to exposure to the sun.
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Sometimes the rainfall is too much and can not allow the pumpkins to do well. The roads are impassable during long rains in Lambwe and transporting of the produce to outside markets is hard. The first harvest usually is in May when there is too much rainfall for the annual planting period. Vehicles to transport the produce don't come for collection due to poor infrastructure and bad weather. The people had not realized the importance of pumpkins and are used to plant just few seedlings only to cater for the needs of their families. This in itself could not improve the production and supply, the people need to be told that there is enough market.
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A variety of diseases affect pumpkins, most notable is powdery mildew. Apply fungicides at the first sign of a problem. Better still, apply them before plant disease problems occur. Hot, humid weather encourages pumpkin diseases.
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As mentioned above, in production there are a lot of factors affecting the production of pumpkins in Suba district and the surrounding islands. Many cannot plant in time to wait for the long rains. Rainfall ... affects the production; if one waits for the long rains when the annual planting is on, the pumpkins cannot do well. Rainfall also is unreliable and planting many seedlings over the dry season is not possible by doing simple irrigation by buckets.
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West planted about 8 acres of pumpkins this year, but only a couple of them “come around,” he said. He wound up buying a bunch of pumpkins from Virginia and priced them from $1 to $12 apiece at his business.
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