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# Eight years of chickpea surveillance exposed disease hotspots that a state average would hide
- URL: https://intelligence.wildlandseco.com/2026-10-01-chickpea-wilt-ict-surveillance/
- Published: 2026-10-01T13:53:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T13:53:29.000Z
- Description: ICT-based monitoring across 305 talukas in Maharashtra found strongly uneven Fusarium-wilt patterns and a broad decline after the 2018–2020 epidemic years.
- Author: Benjamin Worlund
- Tags: chickpea wilt, ICT surveillance, Maharashtra, Land, Agriculture, One Health, Methods, #ecological-intelligence, #brief-2026-10-01, #global-radar, #peer-reviewed

Evidence

Peer-reviewed

Geography

28 districts and 305 talukas, Maharashtra, India

System

Chickpea working lands and soil-borne disease

## WHAT THE EVIDENCE SAYS

From 2018–2025, an ICT-based pest-surveillance program tracked chickpea wilt across 5,039 villages in 305 talukas and 28 districts. The study identified persistent hotspot districts and large within-district differences, while overall incidence declined markedly after the 2018–2020 epidemic period. The authors connect the decline with resistant cultivars, Trichoderma-based integrated disease management and mobile advisory dissemination.

## WHY IT MATTERS / OUR READ

The strongest contribution is the spatial surveillance architecture: management can be targeted to talukas where disease pressure persists rather than treating a whole state as one risk class. The long record also shows how operational monitoring can turn plant disease into a landscape-management problem.

## CAVEATS / UNCERTAINTY

This was not a randomized test of the advisory program. Weather, cultivar adoption, crop rotation, management intensity and surveillance conditions changed through time, so the decline cannot be attributed solely to ICT-enabled integrated disease management.

## SOURCE

Scientific Reports — primary study  
[View original evidence ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-28176-2?ref=intelligence.wildlandseco.com)

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