An Overview of Rice Diseases in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Author(s): D. Sripriya

Abstract: Rice is one of the most important staple food crops of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It is the principal cereal crop in India, which stands second in terms of production and consumption in the world. Rice production in AP and Telangana crossed the mark of 20 MT in 2014 – 15 accounting for 10.78% of Indian production in that year. The productivity has mainly affected by different diseases of rice. Rice diseases occur more or less constantly causing what would appear to be insignificant or occasional losses to individual growers, through making a substantial total in the aggregate in the country. Under favorable condition, some diseases occur as epiphytotic and cause considerable loss. It is stated that nearly 80% of crop was lost due to blast in 1920 in combine AP (Including Telangana) one of the major cause of epidemic like brown spot of rice caused by Helminthosporium oryzae.

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