Vol. 6, Issue 3 (2018)
Technological gaps at farmer level regarding foot rot of basmati
Author(s): Harjot Singh Sidhu and Raminder Singh Ghuman
Abstract: Foot rot (Fusarium moniliforme) is a serious disease and becoming a yield limiting factor in the cultivation of Basmati rice in Punjab. It has been observed that many farmers were performing unrecommended applications for disease management which is a wasteful practice and lead to poor results. So a campaign was initiated by Farm Advisory Service (FASS) of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana at Rupnagar district of Punjab during 2014 and 2015 to spread awareness and tackle some technological gaps under field conditions. A sample size of 124 farmers in four blocks of Rupnagar district was surveyed and it was observed that the disease incidence varied from 35-100 per cent (2014) and 5-75 per cent (2015) in different Basmati cultivars. An awareness campaign was initiated during 2014 and continued to 2015 along with village level trainings and field experiments at farmer fields which helped to reduce the foot rot disease incidence in surveyed villages during the second year of study. Higher rate of Nitrogen application on different varieties of Basmati rice showed more disease incidence. Most farmers used 100 kg urea per acre. At this level of fertilization the range of disease incidence was from 45-100% in 2014 and 5-50% in 2015. Even at high level of N fertilization, seed treatment was able to reduce disease incidence. The highest disease incidence was observed in the fields which were applied 150 kg urea per acre.
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Harjot Singh Sidhu, Raminder Singh Ghuman. Technological gaps at farmer level regarding foot rot of basmati. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(3):2567-2571.
