TITLE:
Ecofriendly Disease Management of Lentil (Lens culinaris) Seedlings
AUTHORS:
Farid Ahmed, Mahbuba Kaniz Hasna, Reza Mohammad Emon
KEYWORDS:
Ecofriendly, Disease, Biofertilizer, Biopesticide, Foot Rot
JOURNAL NAME:
Agricultural Sciences,
Vol.12 No.12,
December
31,
2021
ABSTRACT: To determine the effect of Biofertilizer and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) biopesticide for controlling foot and root rot diseases of lentil it is very important for conducting experiment in the field. It was marked that both Biofertilizer and IPM Biopesticide found significantly lower disease incidence of Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA) released popular lentil variety Binamasur-1 and Binamasur-2 seedlings compared with the control treatment. Soil treatment with Biofertilizer as Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) released Bari-Biofertilizer performed the lowest disease incidence of lentil variety Binamasur-1 and Binamasur-2 at 20 days after sowing (DAS) showed a reduction of disease incidence up to 68.80% and 71.70% over the control. While after 28 DAS, it was found up to 91.27% and 91.34% reduction of disease incidence over control. Furthermore, after 35 DAS, it exhibited up to 69.37% and 69.28% reduction of disease incidence over control. Bari-Biofertilizer significantly increased the fresh weight and the number of nodules per plant.