ABSTRACT
The history of pepper diseases in Indonesia has started with the commercial cultivation in Sumatra and Java. In several places in Sumatra there were great losses for pepper plantations and farmers suffered severely. The experiences suggest that once the diseases occur in a pepper field it is practically impossible to eradicate the pathogen. It was also noticed that the more intensive the cultivation of pepper, in the sub sector of small holdings, the more the problems from diseases as they persist. The specific agroecological conditions seem to favour the development of diseases wherever pepper is cultivated.
