Effect of foliar sprays of fungicides on powdery mildew severity and fruit yield of cucumber during Kharif season

Abstract

The experiment was conducted on the experimental farm of Department of Plant Pathology and Agricultural Microbiology, Post Graduate Institute, MPKV, Rahuri during Kharif seasons of 2018-19 and 2019-20 to check the Effect of foliar sprays of fungicides on powdery mildew severity and fruit yield of cucumber. The data obtained during Kharif 2018-19 it was revealed that all the treatments were significantly superior over unsprayed control. All treatment recorded significantly low disease severity over control at 50, 60 and 70 DAS. The disease severity recorded after first spray (50 DAS), indicated minimum disease severity (22.74%), recorded in the plot which was protected with hexaconazole which followed by propiconazole (26.38%) and penoconazole (28.75%) respectively.