A Survey on Prevalence of Fusarium Wilt of Chickpea in Prakasam District of Andhra Pradesh, India

A roving survey was conducted during rabi season 2018-19 in six predominantly chickpea growing mandals of Prakasam district, A.P with an aim to observe the incidence of Fusarium wilt symptoms caused by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. ciceri (Foc) and to forecast/ forewarm the farmers regarding measures to be taken to offset its damage. When the data was collected from 24 fields running across 12 villages in six mandals of Prakasam district, average wilt incidence was found to be 94.25 per cent. Among the mandals, Ponnaluru, Komarolu and Cumbum mandals had maximum 100 per cent disease incidence while least incidence of 74.5 per cent was observed in Ongole mandal.