Abstract:
Cotton is a vital commercial
crop in the world and plays an important
role for fibre, fuel and edible oil in the
community and to industry. Cotton is a
white fibrous agricultural product that has
a wide variety of uses, from textile
production, to creating paper, to
producing oil and food products. Cotton is
grown all around the globe, and is traded
internationally as well. The cotton
diseases scenario has shown a continuous
change during the past 64 years. Several
diseases have been reported for the cotton
crop. The use of IDM strategy is gaining
momentum now a days, but in developing
countries it often lacks the enabling
environment for its successful implementation.
Cotton crop is affected by various
diseases caused by organisms, such as
fungi, bacteria and viruses that grow on
and within the plant tissues. In this
experiment, total seven modules including
the control was tested in this experiment
from which, module 6 (6.50% PDI),
followed by module 5 (8.50% PDI)
significantly recorded minimum bacterial
leaf blight infection in comparison to the
module 7, i.e. control (18.50% PDI) in
RCH 2 BG II hybrid. For Alternaria leaf
spot disease, module 6 (2.50 % PDI) were
recorded significantly minimum
Alternaria leaf spot disease in RCH 2 BG
II hybrid, as compared to the control
(10.50 % PDI), followed by module 5
(4.50 % PDI) and module 4 (5.50 % PDI).
