Management of Plant Diseases

Leaf spot, leaf blight, rust, anthracnose

  • Seed treatment with thiram at 2g/kg of seed
  • Judicious application of fertilizers
  • Foliar spray with chlorothalonil @ 2 g/lit or carbendazim @ 1 g/lit (or) mancozeb 1000 g/ha (or) propiconazole 500 ml/ha


Smut, bunt, ergot, grain discolouration, false smut

  • Seed treatment with thiram at 2g/kg of seed
  • Use of certified seeds
  • Adjust sowing time to ensure flowering not coincided with rainy season
  • Judicious application of fertilizers
  • Spray of mancozeb at 0.2% or carbendazim + mancozeb at 0.2% or propiconazole 500 ml/ha
  • In case of mould in sorghum, Spray mancozeb 1 kg/ha (or) captan 1 kg + aureofungin sol 100g/ha in case of intermittent rain during earhead emergence


Wilt, root rot, collar rot, sclerotium rot, stem rot

  • Soil application of Trichoderma viride at 1 kg/ac (or) Bacillus substilis
  • Avoid monoculturing
  • Follow crop rotation
  • Proper disposal of affected plant parts
  • Seed treatment with thiram at 2g/kg of seed
  • Use of certified seeds
  • Proper levelling and drainage
  • Avoid water stagnation
  • Proper irrigation
  • Spot drench with Copper oxy chloride at 0.3% and repeated second time at 15 days interval if necessary


  • Treat seeds with metalaxyl 6 g/kg
  • Proper disposal of affected plant parts
  • Spray metalaxyl+mancozeb 500 g or mancozeb 1.0 kg/ha on 20 DAS


  • Seed treatment with thiram at 2g/kg of seed
  • Use of certified seeds
  • Spray of wettable sulphur at 0.2% or carbendazim ay 0.1%


BLB in paddy and cotton Bacterial leaf streak in paddy, wild fire in tobacco, bacterial blight in safflower

  • Seed treatment with thiram at 2g/kg of seed
  • Use of certified seeds or acid delinted seeds in case of cotton
  • Judicious application of fertilizers
  • Spray of copper oxy chloride at 1200 g/ha or Spray of copper oxy chloride at 1200 g/ha + streptomycin sulphate + tetracycline 120g/ac

  • Erwinia rot in sugarbeet
  • Spot drench with copper oxy chloride at 1200 g/ha or copper oxy chloride at 1200 g/ha + streptomycin sulphate + tetracycline 120g/ac
  • Avoid water stagnation


Sterility mosaic in redgram, RTV in paddy, grassy shoot in paddy, yellow mosaic, leaf crinkle in blackgram, bud necrosis in groundnut

  • Seed treatment with imidachlorprid at 5g/kg of seed
  • Use of certified seeds
  • use of resistant variety
  • Field maintained with free of weeds
  • Removal of alternate or collateral hosts
  • Spray of imidachlorprid at 0.5 ml/litre of water to control vector
  • Setting of yellow sticky trap at 5/ac
  • Border crop with millets




× Various sources were used to compile the above management practices. For better results, you should always refer to the individual crop production guide / package of practices.