National Symposium on Strategic Issues in Plant Pathological Research held at Department of Plant Pathology, CSK HP Krishi Vishvavidayalaya, Palampur on November 24–25, 2011
Integrated Pest Management is an eco-friendly approach for disease control that uses few or no pesticides. This helps in avoiding un-necessary use of chemical which are hazardous to the environment and human beings. In the present study different integrated disease management modules (IDMMs) were evaluated at different tomato growing areas of district Kangra of Himachal Pradesh on rainy season crop. The target diseases included early blight, late blight, septoria leaf spot and buckeye rot. Out of four IDMMs, module M1 (comprising of seedling dip with bavistin and foliar sprays with Dithane Z-78 (2.5g/l) after 20 days of transplant; followed by one spray of Indofil M-45 (2.5g/l) with onset of disease and two sprays of Ridomil (2.5g/l) were also made at 15 days interval) exhibited maximum control (80.0%) of all the diseases. This was followed module M2 providing 67.4% control, however, module M3 was least effective.
