Disease cycle:

Management:

• Drain rice fields relatively early in the cropping season to reduce sheath blight epidemics.
• Use fungicide to treat seeds.
• Apply organic amendments, neemcake @ 150Kg/ha or FYM 12.5 tons/ha.
• Avoid flow of irrigation water from infected fields to healthy fields.
• Deep ploughingin summer and burning of stubbles.
• Spray Carbendazim500 g/ha
• Soil application of fluorescens@ of 2.5 kg/ha after 30 days of transplanting (product should be mixed with 50 kg of FYM/Sand and applied)
• Foliar spray fluorescens at0.2% at boot leaf stage and 10 days later