MANAGEMENT OF FOLIAR AND SOIL BORNE DISEASES INLONG PEPPER USING BIOAGENTS AND ORGANICSSushri Sangita Bal, Sandeep Kumar and Subash Chandra SwainAbstract Long pepper (Piper longum L.) is an important medicinal plant used in Ayurvedic system of medicine sinceancient time and diseases are an important biological constraint in limiting the production and productivityof it hence a field experiment was conducted to evaluate the foliar and soil borne diseases of Long pepper(cv. Vishwam) using several combinations of bioagents and organics. The result revealed that soil treatmentwith T. viride @3 g/m2 with 20t FYM/ha + Neem Cake @ 2t/ha was found superior in managing the leafblight/rot disease where as spraying of Tebuconazole + Trifloxystrobin @ 0.1% was appeared to be the bestin case of leaf spot and stem rot diseases. As far as dry catkin yield is concerned, soil treatment with T.viride @3 g/m2 with 20t FYM/ha + Neem Cake @ 2t/ha recorded highest yield of 445.4 Kg/ha. |