Soil microbial diversity is indispensable to maintain functional diversity and enzyme-mediated critical soil processes that detoxify soil from environmental pollutants, like pesticides. Thus, the present study was carried out to assess the effect of different concentrations of the fungicide dimethomorph on the activities of phosphatase, and urease, of black and red soils of groundnut cultivated fields of Anantapuramu District , Andhra Pradesh, India