Integrated Management of Stem Rot of Groundnut Caused by Sclerotium rolfsii. sacc

Background: Groundnut is the principal vegetable oil crop in India and about 85 per cent groundnut area under remains rain fed. Stem rot of more prevalent capable causing considerable loss yield when left unmanaged. Methods: In order to find out an effective method managing disease, integrated approach was adopted by combining use bio agents, organic amendments fungicides alone combinations. Result: Seed treatment with tebuconazole @ 1 g kg-1 commercial formulation Trichoderma harzianum 5g seed along soil application neem cake 1.3 t ha-1 maintained its superiority over other treatments recording least PDI, maximum germination percentage (98.20%), root length (14.62 cm), shoot (35.54 number pods plant (32.57) pod (3920.0 kg ha-1) which may be synergistic effect amendment bioagent. However, all sole also managed disease some extent but greater control recorded combination than alone.