author(s)
Pooja Khoraniya and Dr. BL Baheti

abstract
Root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita is considered to be the most important nematode of pulse crops including chickpea. Farmers experience chronic losses by root-knot nematode because of it’s wide distribution and high frequency in all agro-climatic zones of India. Looking to it’s economic importance, several pesticides have been tried for the management of nematode, but due to environmental pollution, health hazards, high cost and lack of easy availability, their adoption at farmer’s level has been limited. Therefore, attempts were made to determine alternative methods which may be effective, economical and eco-friendly for the management of root-knot nematode, M. incognita on chickpea. Experimental findings exhibited that the seed treatment with Periwinkle leaves powder at 10% w/w was found best followed by Parthenium leaves powder at 10% and Water hyacinth leaves powder at 10% w/w in improving plant growth of chickpea and reduced reproduction of root-knot nematode, M. incognita.