Studies on survey of dry root rot of chickpea incidence in chickpea growing districts of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Is an important pulse crop of India popularly known as Gram. Dry root rot of chickpea is the most severe disease in the central and southern zone, where the crop is mostly grown under rainfed condition. Rhizoctonia bataticola (Taub.) Butler is one of the most distructive pathogen causing dry root rot disease in chickpea. The survey studies indicated that overall dry root rot incidence compratively higher in Ayodhya districts (27.39%) grown chickpea crop, compared to other four districts (Basti, Gonda, Sultanpur and Kanpur). In five districts of Uttar Pradesh survey, the disease was found to be widely distributed and regular occurance with moderate to severe incidence and its, average both years (2017-18 and 2018-19) incidence was found maximum in the districts of Ayodhya (27.39%) followed by Kanpur (25.29%), Sultanpur (23.89%), Gonda (11.41) and Basti district (10.30%).