1. Healthy, vigorous, disease-free and disease-resistant varieties should be used. High yielding varieties resistant to leaf blight are Xa4, Xa5, Xa13, Xa21, Xa33, Xa38 etc.
2. The seeds should be treated with fungicide before sowing. The seeds should be treated with bleaching powder (100 mg/ml) and zinc sulphate (2%).
3. Spraying streptocycline on diseased leaves is beneficial.
4. Weeds and garbage on the land should be destroyed or burnt. Paddy straw and other growing plants should be removed.
5. The land should be well dried before sowing.
6. Phenyl sulfuric acetate and m. 10-20 liters of Chloramphenicol should be applied.
7. Water drainage should be arranged.
8. Seed beds should be made on high ground. Plant to plant distance and line to line distance should be scientific.
9. Disinfect the soil by spreading copper oxychloride.
10. Chlorine or bleaching powder should be applied with irrigation water.
11. Nitrogen fertilizers should be applied in the right amount at the right time. Do not overdose.
12. Diseased rice plants should be uprooted and burnt.
13. Seed borne infection is prevented by soaking in 0.1% Sirisan solution for 8 hours before sowing.
14. Quarantine procedures should be adopted.