“…In case of rice, many researchers have reported the increased grain yield after application of fungicides due to reduction in biotic stress on plant during critical growth stages (Sood and Kapoor, 1997;Tirmali et al, 2001;Prabhu et al, 2003;Usman et al, 2009;Naik et al, 2012;Bhuvaneshwari and Raju, 2012;Bag et al, 2016. For management of false smut disease, efficacy of many fungicides has been reported previously (Chen et al, 2013;Kumar, 2015;Raji et al, 2016).…”