Paddy Pests and Disease Management-False Smut BASF

For management of False Smut:
• High relative humidity, rainy and cloudy days during the flowering period increase the incidence of the disease.
• It is a fungal disease in which the individual grains transform into large yellowish/greenish velvety spore-balls.
• The application of organic manures and high dose of nitrogenous fertilizers also increases the intensity of attack.

For management,
• Destruction of straw and stubble from the infected plants.
• Early planted crop had less smut balls than the late planted crop.
• Field bunds and irrigation channels should be kept clean to eliminate alternate hosts.
• Excess application of nitrogenous fertilizer should be avoided.