According to preliminary data in the new growing season, farmers expect the following problems: in the South the situation is aggravated with the locust, may suffer Dagestan, Stavropol Krai, Krasnodar Krai, as the winter Asian locust went in gregarious form, which can lead to one-off departure. In addition, we cannot exclude the aerial Moroccan locust.

Fusarium head blight is still problem No. 1 in the protection of crops. Symptoms of brown rust appeared in the fall in many regions, therefore, we cannot exclude the possibility of epidemics of the disease in 2017. According to the prevailing weather conditions may be symptoms of snow mold (Fusarium and titulenko origin). In the Krasnodar region may suffer from piricularia rice, autumn weather conditions contribute to this, it now remains to wait, but it's definitely spring. Producers of sugar beet in the Central Chernozem region should be prepared to combat Fusarium rot. And to the unpleasant combination of work of agents of Cercospora and bacterial pathogens. Vegetable crops both open and closed ground should beware of bacterial infection, in greenhouses and in the South – a viral diseases are an increasing percentage of the total number of phytopathological problems. Anyone who has a fruit planting, is very attentive to the threat of destruction of the quarantine disease – bacterial blight, caused by Erwinia amylovora.

To cope with these threats one response will not work, a panacea for plant protection does not exist. Therefore, great importance is the selection of sustainable and cultivars, strict observance of quarantine measures, continuous monitoring of cultivated plants, increasing plant immunity (due to the observance of agrotechnical conditions of cultivation, treatments with elicitors or substances that improve the General condition of the plants), balanced plant nutrition, improvement of soil, disinfection of working tools, containers, vehicles, stationary structures in greenhouses, seed treatment, prophylactic treatment with biologics, treatment of plants during the growing season when ET exceeded, or according to the forecast.