Vol. 9, Special Issue 12, Part V (2025)

The field experiment was conducted during Kharif, 2024 and Rabi, 2024-25 at Agricultural Research Station, Shirgaon, Dist. Ratnagiri to assess the reactions of thirty-one rice varieties against sheath blight disease under natural epiphytotic conditions. The results revealed that, amongst thirty-one rice varieties screened against sheath blight disease, twenty-one rice varieties were found moderately resistant, ten rice varieties viz., Ratnagiri 5 (52.59% and 47.28%), Ratnagiri 7 (54.07% and 49.34%), Karjat 3 (49.34% and 47.68%), Karjat 4 (50.65% and 46.32%), Karjat 5 (55.27% and 49.94%), Karjat 6 (51.89% and 47.63%), Karjat Shatabdi (58.39% and 52.06%), Panvel 1 (53.17% and 49.44%), Panvel 2 (50.18% and 47.39%), Panvel 3 (52.64% and 49.28%) were found susceptible to sheath blight disease during Kharif, 2024 and Rabi, 2024-25, respectively. However, none of the rice variety exhibited immune, highly resistant, resistant and highly susceptible reaction against sheath blight disease during Kharif, 2024 and Rabi, 2024-25.