Studies on survey of dry root rot disease of chickpea (cicer arietinum l.) incidence in chickpea growing districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is an important pulse crop of India popularly known as Gram. Dry root rot of chickpea (Cicer arietinum )is the most severe disease in the central and southern zone, where the crop is mostly grown under rainfed condition. Rhizoctonia bataticola (Taub.) Butler is one of the most distructive pathogen causing dry root rot disease in chickpea(chana). The survey studies indicated that overall dry root rot incidence compratively higher in Deoria districts (26.76%) grown chickpea crop, compared to other four districts ( Ghazipur, Mau, Azamgarh, and Gorakhpur). In five districts of Eastern Uttar Pradesh survey, the disease was found to be widely distributed and regular occurrence with moderate to severe incidence and its, average both years (2021-2022 and 2022-2023) incidence was found maximum in the districts of Deoria (26.76%) followed by Gorakhpur (25.017%), Azamgarh (23.69%), Mau (11.38%) and Ghazipur district (10.53%).