Assessment on the Prevalence of Wilt of Lentil in Different Districts of Uttar Pradesh, India
Sibte Sayyeda *
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, 202002, India.
R. U. Khan
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, 202002, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
A comprehensive field survey was carried out to evaluate the incidence of wilt of lentil during the rabi seasons of 2018-19 and 2019-20 across various farmer’s fields in different districts of western Uttar Pradesh. The pooled data of two years (2018-19 and 2019-20) revealed a significant variation in wilt incidence among the surveyed districts. The disease incidence ranged from 9.37 to 38.47 per cent with an overall average of 23.74%. The disease was present in each village across the ten districts surveyed, but significantly maximum disease incidence (38.47%) was recorded in Aligarh followed by Bulandshahr (34.83%), whereas, minimum per cent incidence was observed in district Muzaffarnagar (9.37%) followed by Saharanpur (11.86%). This variation highlights the need for region-specific management strategies to reduce the spread of lentil wilt.
Keywords: Wilt, lentil, survey, disease incidence, Uttar Pradesh