Vol. 10, Issue 3 (2021)

Author(s):
Prashant Ahlawat, Vikash Kumar, Shashank Shekhar, Sudheer Kumar, Ravi Verma, Saurabh Tyagi, Lalit Kumar, Ankur Kumar and Shubham Malik

Abstract:
The banded leaf and sheath blight of maize is prevalent wherever maize crop is grown in all the districts Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Shamli Karnal road, Hapur, Bulandshahr of western Uttar Pradesh. Most of the farmers did not follow the proper crop rotation in general they grow maize crop after potato. The disease generally occurs wherever the maize crop was planted after potato because the sclerotia and infected plant debris as leftover present in soil as a primary source of inoculum.