\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{subfigure}{0.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figure_1_1.pdf}
\end{subfigure}
\begin{subfigure}{0.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figure_1_2.pdf}
\end{subfigure}
\begin{subfigure}{0.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figure_1_3.pdf}
\end{subfigure}
\begin{subfigure}{0.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figure_1_4.pdf}
\end{subfigure}
\begin{subfigure}{0.3\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figure_1_5.pdf}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{A\&B: Rice field infected with sheath blight. C\&D: Infected root zone of the diseased plants. E: Best recovered unit after treatment.}
\label{figure_1}
\end{figure}

Plate 1: Pictorial presentation of the experiment.

\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c l c c c c c c c c c}
S. No & Observations & T1 & T2 & T3 & T4 & T5 & T6 & T7 & T8 & T9 \\
1 & Av. No of tillers per hill & 4 & 5 & 7 & 9 & 12 & 8 & 11 & 9 & 4 \\
2 & Av. No of grains & 85 & 95 & 90 & 110 & 126 & 100 & 117 & 100 & 75 \\
3 & 1000 grain weight (gm) & 22 & 26 & 28 & 33 & 31 & 25 & 29 & 23 & 22 \\
4 & Disease incidence (\%) & 65 & 58 & 45 & 40 & 38 & 65 & 62 & 58 & 55 \\
\end{tabular}
\caption{Pretreatment data in each of the selected blocks.}
\label{table_1}
\end{table}

Disease incidence = $\frac{\text{Number of infected plants}}{\text{Total Number of plants visited}} \times 100$

Along with the disease incidence the following crop parameters were also observed and recorded for each plot.

\begin{itemize}
\item Average number of tillers per hill.
\item Average number of grains per spike
\item 1000 grains weight
\item Disease incidence
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Fungicide treatment}

The fungicidal treatment was given to each infected plot in order to evaluate the comparative potential of each fungicide to control the sheath blight (Table \ref{tab:table_2}).

\section{Results and Discussion}

\subsection{Pathogen identification}

Pathogenic fungi was isolated at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Pathogen was identified as \textit{Rhizoctoniasolani}.

\subsection{Disease incidence}

Disease incidence before treatment of fungicide in the field was infested highly with disease. Disease incidence after treatment of fungicides, the observation collected about disease in the field in response to fungicide application was as follows:

The best control against sheath blight was found in T5 and T7, T4 (Figure 1) stood at second number while T3, T6 and T8 results were almost same in controlling the disease and T2 and T1 gave less control along with no control of disease in the experimental unit of T9.

\subsection{Number of tillers per hill}

The average number of tillers were calculated after treatment of fungicides in the field were as follows: Maximum number of tillers were found in T5 along with T4 and T7 while other treatment gave average number of tillers, minimum number of tillers were found in T9.

\subsection{Number of grains per spike}

Maximum average number of grains per spike were observed in T5, T4, and T7 respectively. T3, T6 and T2 gave medium number of grains per spike, minimum number of grains were found in T9.

\subsection{1000 grain weight in grams}

1000 grains were collected from the spikes of each experimental units and their weight was recorded in grams and it is given in table (Table 2) and Figure 1.

\subsection{Yield of crop}

Yield of rice crop was recorded and explained in table. The best results were found in T5 (Table 3).

\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c l l}
Treatments & Name of fungicide & Dose per Acre \\
T1 & Cordate & 75 gm \\
T2 & Precurecombi & 62.5 gm \\
T3 & Curon & 50 ml \\
T4 & Bandict & 62.5 ml \\
T5 & Nativo & 15 gm \\
T6 & Valedamycin & 25 ml \\
T7 & Tilt & 50 ml \\
T8 & Curon (Flooding) & 100 ml \\
T9 & Control &  \\
\end{tabular}
\caption{Treatment details of each infected plot.}
\label{table_2}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{figure_2.pdf}
\caption{Rice crop data in the selected field units after treatment.}
\label{figure_2}
\end{figure}