Paddy Crop

Pests & Disease Management
Rice Blast

Symptoms

  • The fungus causes spindle shaped spots with greyish centre and brown margin on the leaves at maximum tillering.
  • It also causes brown lesions on the neck of the panicle, showing neck rot symptoms and the panicles fall over.
  • The disease is more severe on Basmati cultivars particularly in the sub-mountainous areas and under application of heavy nitrogenous fertilizers.

Management

  • Spray Azoxystrobin 18.2% + Difenconazole 11.4%SC @ 200ml/ acre or for the control of leaf, neck blast spray Tebuconazole 50% + Trifloxystrobin 25% WG @ 80g per acre.