Seed infecting fungi are important constraints for the groundnut crop prior harvesting to storage. Many fungal pathogens attack on the seeds and hamper seed health. Infected seed samples of groundnut collected from field grown groundnut crop of farmers’ fields of Dangs district. Isolation by both the methods revealed the predominantly association of Sclerotium rolfsii, Fusarium moniliforme, Fusarium equiseti, Helminthosporium sp., Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus flavus. All the bio agents tested were superior to improve seed health over control. Overall, bio agents recorded 22.45 to 38.78, 12.50 to 26.79 and 11.40 to 25.44 per cent increase in seed germination, shoot length and root length respectively over control. Seeds treated with Trichoderma viride recorded highest germination (90.67%), shoot length (4.73cm) and root length (4.77 cm) and gave highest SVI i.e. 772.27.

Keywords: GERMINATION, SVI (SEED VIGOR INDEX)