Abstract            Volume:13  Issue-1  Year-2025         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

Production of fababean in Ethiopia is constrained by both abiotic and biotic factors. Among biotic factors disease on field like Root rot, Ascochyta blight, Rust and Chocolate spot are major disease of fababean. Field experiment was conducted to test the significance of seed treatments against these diseases in 2015 and 2016 at two locations. Three released variety of fababean V1, V2 and V3 were treated with five different fungicides to test for the effectiveness against different soil borne disease mainly root rot. Kulumsa Agricultural research main station and Arsirobe sub-site were the test location. RCBD design with three replication was used. Phonological data, disease data and seed quality data were recorded and Analysis of variance was done using R software. Mean square of interaction effect of variety, treatments by year over location was tested and the reported as follow. Even though mean square of treatments show variation across location by year the interaction effect of variety*year*location revealed Fungicide 5 consistently results in the lowest severity for Root Rot in Location 1 for Variety 1 across years,1 and 2 followed by Fungicide 4 and Fungicide 3, there is no sufficient information to say what fungicide can reduce the risk of root rots due to confounding effects of weather and agroecology, hence the experiment with inoculation under controlled environment is needed for further recommendations.

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