Mungbean (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek) is an important pulse crop and play very important role in the supply of the protein to under nourished vegetarian population of the country. It suffers from a number disease. Among these, Cercospora canescens Ellis & Martin is the most wide spread and destructive disease in India. It causes about 47 per cent yield loss annually.The management of cercospora leaf spot disease of mungbean was done earlier mostly through fungicides to minimizing the yield losses. But fungicides caused many problems in our eco-system. Despite some progress made towards...

The Swarna Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), a centrally sponsored scheme of Ministry of the Rural Development, is the largest credit based poverty alleviation programme in the world. Poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have a third of the worlds poor. The Union Ministry of Rural Development launched a restructured poverty alleviation programme, SGSY with effect from 1st April, 1999, which has replaced Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) and its allied schemes viz., Training of Rural Youth for Self Employment (TRYSEM), Development of Women and Children in...