1. Disease resistant varieties should be used as seed. Disease resistant potato varieties like Kufri Sinduri, Kufri Chandramukhi, Kufri Nice, RKM, Abanaki, Belchip, Back King, Superior etc. should be used.
2. Potato seeds should be collected from disease free areas.
3. Seed potatoes should be dried in the hot sun.
4. Potatoes should be cultivated in high places.
5. The root of the potato plant should be elevated.
6. The soil should not be too wet.
7. Land waste should be burnt.
8. The soil should be well treated with 1% boron or copper-lime.
9. Potatoes should be cultivated in open fields and space should be kept between rows of potato plants.
10. Diathon M-45 should be sprayed once when the plant is 6-10 cm, then after 15 days.
11. Control the disease with Bordeaux mixture, Mancozeb 0.2% and Copper oxychloride.
12. Diseased leaves should be removed by sprinkling cynox or ammonium thiocyanate.
13. Potatoes should be harvested in dry weather.
14. Potatoes should be stored in the refrigerator. The temperature in the freezer should be controlled at 50C.
15. Irrigation and use of nitrogen fertilizers should be avoided.
16. Crop rotation system should be introduced.
17. Quarantine procedures should be adopted.