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The field experiment was conducted at research farm of the department of Agronomy College of agriculture, Bijapur, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad during the year Kharif 2013-2014 to know the Influence of pearlmillet crop geometry on disease severity under dryland conditions. The experiment was laid out with eight treatments replicated three times in randomized block design. The closer spacing treatments like 60 cm x 10 cm (1140.44 percent disease index of blast) and 75 cm x 8 cm (694.40 percent disease index of blast ) recorded higher blast severity and 60 cm x 10 cm (311.08 percent disease index of rust ) and 75 cm x 8 cm (414.40 percent disease index of rust) lower rust severity and on the contrary wider row spacing treatments 120 cm x 10 cm ( 1140.72 percent disease index of rust) and 135 cm x 10 cm (1036.84 percent disease index of rust) recorded higher rust severity and 120 cm x 10 cm (406.56 percent disease index of blast) and 135 cm x 10 cm (350.56 percent disease index of blast) lower blast severity.
Keywords: Crop geometry, Dryland, Pearlmillet, Disease severity.