Rapid roving a varietal survey for Pigeonpea Phytopthora wilt in Kalaburagi district of Karnataka, India

Abstract:

The climatic variability affects the crop growth stages and to assess the severity of the wet wilt problem, survey for the wilt disease was undertaken in Kharif 2018-19 at different villages of Kalaburagi district of Karnataka. The information was collected reveals that incidence of wilt ranged from 1 to 15 per cent and mean incidence of 6.0 per cent were recorded. Among the variety cultivated were checked for the disease incidence, the Local Gulyal, Double moong, Katti beeja are shown symptoms of phytopthora wilt and stem canker disease. These all the varieties were inspected under the rainfed situations, wherever the crop and soil zone wet situations the incidence of wilt was observed. The high incidence is noticed in Sedam and Chittapur taluks 3 to14 and 3 to 15 ranges respectively and Jewargi and Aland taluk the incidence varied from 2 to 9 and 2 to 11% range respectively.