Pseudomonas solanacearum has continued to disseminate in newer seed production areas due to lack of strict quarantine systems, seed certification schemes, and lack of farmers awareness about the modes of the disease transmission. Consequently bacterial wilt has remained as one of the major production constraints in the hills causing severe losses both under field and storage conditions.Integrated management practices like use of resistant cultivars, crop rotation, crop sanitation, use of disease-free planting materials and other cultural practices are recommended to control the disease. However,  these technologies are not fully exploited in the infested areas due to lack of effective policy and capabilities. Stakeholders like National Agriculture Research Council and the Department of Agriculture has to play the crucial role in implementing the control measures effectively on a wider scale. Most of the users (client or farmers) of the research result do not know of the modes of the disease dissemination and means of long term survival of the pathogen in soil. The possible role of farmers to manage the disease is also discussed in this paper.

Pseudomonas solanacearum has continued to disseminate in newer seed production areas due to lack of strict quarantine systems, seed certification schemes, and lack of farmers awareness about the modes of the disease transmission. Consequently bacterial wilt has remained as one of the major production constraints in the hills causing severe losses both under field and storage conditions.Integrated management practices like use of resistant cultivars, crop rotation, crop sanitation, use of disease-free planting materials and other cultural practices are recommended to control the disease. However,  these technologies are not fully exploited in the infested areas due to lack of effective policy and capabilities. Stakeholders like National Agriculture Research Council and the Department of Agriculture has to play the crucial role in implementing the control measures effectively on a wider scale. Most of the users (client or farmers) of the research result do not know of the modes of the disease dissemination and means of long term survival of the pathogen in soil. The possible role of farmers to manage the disease is also discussed in this paper.