Symptom

• The disease can affect the crop at any stage.
• The field symptoms of wilt are dead seedlings or adult plants, usually in patches.
• At seedling stage, 3-5 weeks after sowing, whole seedlings collapse and lie flat on the ground with dull green leaves and shrunken stem.
• Dark drown or dark discoloration of the internal stem tissues is visible.
• At adult stage, drooping of petioles, rachis and leaflets and finally entire plant occurs.  

• Deep summer ploughing
• Follow crop rotation measures continuously.
• Always use disease free seeds.
• Avoid sowing when temperatures are high.
• Follow 6-year crop rotations with sorghum
• Apply FYM 10-15 cart load/ha.
• Seed treatment with T. viride @4g/kg or P. fluorescens @ 10g/ kg of seed or Carbendazim or Thiram 2g/kg of seed.
• Spot drenching with Carbendazim 1g/lit or P. fluorescens / T. viride 2.5 kg/ha with 50 kg FYM.
• Seed treatment with Carbendazim at the rate of 1g/kg of seed /
• Seed treatment with Thiram + Carbandizm @ 1g+2g per kg of seed