Surveillance of Chickpea Wilt Caused by Fusarium oxysporium f. sp. Cicer

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is one of the important rabi pulse crop grown in Vindhya region of Madhya Pradesh. Among vascular wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. spp. ciceri is major devastated disease of chickpea causing losses to the tune of 100 per cent in severe condition. A survey was conducted and chickpea wilt disease incidence were recorded during the rabi seasons of 2020–21 and 2021–22, covering 120chickpea fields from 25 block under 05 districts distributed under three agro-climatic zones viz., scarcity zone, assured rainfall zone and moderately high rainfall zone of the Vindhya region of Madhya Pradesh. In the two cropping season the mean incidence of chickpea wilt was recorded in each district was found maximum in Panna district (14.9%) followed by Katni (12.95.24%) and Sidhi (12.25%) and the minimum disease incidence wasrecorded in Satna (10.83%) followed by Rewa (11.78%) districts of Vindhya region. Present study showed that chickpea wilt was highly distributed in all the surveyed areas of Vindhya region of Madhya Pradesh.