Integrated
management of the mite includes adoption of suitable crop rotations with
non-host crop like wheat, proper isolation of potato from susceptible crops like
chillies and brinjal, delayed planting of potato preferably beyond 15th
October in the western Gangetic plains for main crop (winter season crop) and
need based use of acaricides. If there is a complex problem of mite and leaf
spots, the spraying with mancozeb would be an appropriate control