On farm testing of biological and chemical measures of fungal wilt management in bottle gourd

Abstract

Many times, a single problem creates greater hazard to the crop production, livelihood and income generation. Almost two decades earlier farmers of Jharkhand used to practice complete monoculture, rice in low and medium lands and maize, pigeonpea, sesame, blackgram etc. in uplands. After kharif crops, field was rendered fallow for the next kharif. This practice is still in custom on an extensive area. With the availability of irrigation facilities, a section of farmers turned vegetable growers