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Chickpea (Cicer arientum L.) is high protein legume grown in India. It is grown an about 9.21 million ha with production of 8.88 million ton with productivity of 995Kg/ha (Singh and Sewak 2013). Majority of chickpea affected by seed and soil borne diseases caused by Ascochyta rabiei, Fusarium oxysporum, Botrytis cinerea and Rhizoctonia solani (Arfaoui et al 2006). Fusarium wilt caused by F. oxysporium f. sp. ciceris is a major constrain in chickpea production. Annual chickpea yield losses implicating Fusarium wilt vary from 10-15%, but the disease span completely destroy the crop under unfavorable conditions (Cherif et al