_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: E-mail: seethiyamahajan@gmail.com; Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology 39(14): 19-30, 2020; Article no.CJAST.56943 ISSN: 2457-1024 (Past name: British Journal of Applied Science & Technology, Past ISSN: 2231-0843, NLM ID: 101664541) Evaluation of Different Fungicides and Bioagents for the Management of Chickpea Wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri) Seethiya Mahajan 1* , Deepak Kumar 1 , Santosh Kumar Singh 1 , Deepak Mahajan 2 , Devendra Kumar 1 and Shazia Paswal 1 1 Division of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Shere-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, Chatha 180009, Jammu and Kashmir, India. 2 Division of livestock Products Technology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Khalsa College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Amritsar 143002, Punjab, India. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/CJAST/2020/v39i1430693 Editor(s): (1) Dr. Ahmed Fawzy Yousef, Desert Research Center, Egypt. Reviewers: (1) O. Okpo, Ngozi, Federal College of Agricultural Produce Technology, Nigeria. (2) Aba-Toumnou Lucie, University of Bangui, Central African Republic. Complete Peer review History: http://www.sdiarticle4.com/review-history/56943 Received 15 March 2020 Accepted 21 May 2020 Published 08 June 2020 ABSTRACT The incidence of the chickpea wilt disease caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri ranged between 8.11 - 21.67 and 10.98 - 23.99 per cent with an overall mean disease incidence of 15.64 and 16.86 per cent respectively during Rabi seasons of 2016-17 and 2017-18 in surveys conducted fortnightly in the different chickpea growing areas of Jammu sub-tropics. The maximum growth inhibition of pathogen i.e., 78.44 per cent was observed by local isolate T. harzianum (Th-III) and P. fluorescens (Pf-III) was least effective in controlling the growth of pathogen i.e., 53.00 per cent in In vitro studies. Among chemicals, carbendazim at 100 ppm was significantly effective in inhibiting the growth of pathogen (98.67%), while copper oxychloride and mancozeb showed inhibition of 83.11 and 82.22 per cent, respectively. Both the antagonists were highly sensitive to propiconazole (Tilt), carbendazim (Bavistin), difenoconazole (Score), iprodione + carbendazim (Quintal) and metalaxyl (Ridomil), giving no growth of T. viride (TV-III) and T. harzianum (TH-III). TMTD (Thiram) recorded least inhibition of both the bioagents. Under field conditions, bioagents recorded maximum seed germination of 90.21 and 90.07 per cent, whereas least germination was recorded in mancozeb Original Research Article