Study on Growth Parameters of Cabbage by using Biocontrol Agent Trichoderma Viride with FYM.​

Hemant Kumar Chaturvedi,Professor Nidhi Lal

Department of Botany, St. Andrew’s college Gorakhpur

 INTRODUCTION

India is fortunate enough to have vast diversity of land soil and agro climatic condition to grow various vegetables. Cabbage is the one of the most starchy food crops of the world. Today farmer are searching for resource efficient low cost and profitable dependent system, chemical pesticides when especially used indiscriminately have contaminated the environment. A number of plant diseases especially the soil and seed born could not be significantly controlled by chemical means and gain the resistance from the chemicals. So the substitute only to apply cultural and biological

practices, biological control methods are alternative means of disease control and grow healthy crop, which are the otherwise unprotected because of the involved expenses. An ecofriendly biopesticides viz. Tricoderma viride product is very easy to use and having no adverse effects on environment (crop, people and animals). They can be applied to prevent and control several pathogenic fungi such as Alternaria, Rhizoctania, Pythium, Phytopthora, Fuarium etc.and grow healthy crop.

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