Cultural Management
1. Plant healthy sets taken
from disease free area.
2. Remove and destroy the smutted clump (collect the whips in a thick cloth bag/polythene bag and immerse in boiling water for 1 hr to kill the spores).
3. Discourage ratooning of the diseased crops having more than 10 per cent infection.
4. Follow crop rotation with green manure crops or dry fallowing.
5. Grow redgram as a companion
crop between 2 rows of sugarcane