Apple is the Major Fruit Crop of the Valley and it is more Profitable  Thank Conventional Rice Crop: A Part from The Book Chapter : Integrated Disease Management in Rice: Experience from the Northwestern Himalayas in Jammu and Kashmir

Apple is the major fruit crop of the valley and it is more profitable  thank conventional rice crop,  that is why farmers pay much attention to the apple crop. Though the management technology for blast disease is well established but farmers do not follow the same resulting in considerable decline in crop yield due to the disease. Not a single farmer even uses a simple technique of seed treatment against the  disease.

Author(s) Details:

T. Mubarak,
Mountain Research Center for Field Crops, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Kashmir (J & K)-192021, India.

Z. A. Bhat,
Division of Plant Pathology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Kashmir (J & K)- 191102, India.

A. Shakoor,
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kulgam, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Kashmir (J & K)-192231, India.

Hasseb-Ur-Rehman,
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kulgam, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Kashmir (J & K)-192231, India.

Shahid A. Sheergojari,
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kulgam, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Kashmir (J & K)-192231, India.

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