Wednesday 17 June 2015

Paul Neergaard - Father of Seed Pathology 
(ICAR question papers mentioned that spelling is Paul Neergard)

Tuesday 16 June 2015

James Edward Vanderplank - Father of Plant Disease Epidemiology 

Katan - Father of Soil Solarization 

Pesticides

Most of the Indian farmer using the pesticide is under Highly toxic category

India ranks 12th level in Globally manner for Pesticide manufacturer 

Monday 15 June 2015






The duration of licence period of each fungicide is only 2 years (next is renewal) given Central Insecticides Boards (Visit the site http://cibrc.nic.in), Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage, Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India.


The top 3 fungicide manufactures are Syngenta, Bayer Crop Science, BASF in the world
Mancozeb means Maneb + Zineb