ABSTRACT
The common nonleguminous seasonal fodder crops which are widely grown in India are oat, maize, bajra, and sorghum. Like other staple food crops such as rice and wheat the production of fodder crop also suffered from various biotic and abiotic factors. Among the biotic factors, diseases caused maximum yield loss. The important fungal diseases includes covered smut, lose smut, stem rust of oat, green year, rust, ergot and smut of bajra, charcoal rot, downy mildew and leaf blight of maize, and in sorghum important diseases are downy mildew, red rot, and leaf blight.
