Saidul Islamand Bholanath Mondal Author

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Field Efficacy of Fungicides and Bio-Botanicals against Late Blight Disease of Potato

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Rahamatulla Middya, Saidul Islam and Bholanath Mondal

Potato (Solanum tuberosum l.) is one of the most important Solanaceous vegetable crops throughout the world, and a staple food in many parts of the world. Late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary is a serious disease, affects all parts of potato viz. leave, stem and tubers. The field experiments were conducted at Benuria, Birbhum during Rabi season of 2015-16 and 2016-17 under Red and Lateritic Agro-climatic Zone of West Bengal. The experiments were conducted to find out the effect of fungicides and bio-botanicals against late blight of potato (cv. Kufri Jyoti). It was revealed from the experiment that Ethaboxam 40% SC@1.33 ml/l appeared highly effective. Ethaboxam 40% SC@1.0 ml/l, Ethaboxam 40% SC@0.88ml/l, Ethaboxam 40%SC@0.75 ml/l were reduced the disease incidenc... view more»

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