JOURNAL OF PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE
Open Access
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 2

Survey for the assessment of chilli anthracnose disease incidence in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan

  • Author:
  • Vijay Pal1*, J. R. Verma2**, Dama Ram1, Krishna Saharan3, L. Netajit4
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 51 to 55

1Department of Plant Pathology, COA, Jodhpur (AU, Jodhpur), Rajasthan - India

2Department of Plant Pathology, ARS, Mandor (AU, Jodhpur), Rajasthan - India

3Department of Agricultural Microbiology, COA, Jodhpur (AU, Jodhpur), Rajasthan-India

4Department of Agricultural Statistics, COA, Jodhpur (AU, Jodhpur), Rajasthan- India

*Email: viiayjaipal4@gmail.com

Online published on 8 July, 2021.

Abstract

A survey was conducted in major chilli growing areas of different tehsilsviz., Tiwari, Bilara, Bhopalgarh, Osian and Bawari of Jodhpur district, Rajasthan during kharif 2019 to assess the incidence of anthracnose diseases. At each tehsil level five villages situated in different geographical directions and five farmers' fields per village were randomly selected.The highest incidence of anthracnose of chilliwas observed in Tiwari tehsil (22.02%) Whereas, the minimum anthracnose incidence was observed (12.94%) in Bilara tehsil. The overall average disease incidence of the Jodhpur district was (17.31%) based on total 125 fields surveyed in kharif 2019.

Keywords

Survey, Chilli, Anthracnose, Disease incidence