Brinjal (Solanum melongena)

CROP MANAGEMENT

Seed management

1. Seed selection methods
2. Seed treatment methods
3. Nursery management

Soil Management

1. Compost
2. vermicompost
3. Green manuring
4. Green leaf manuring
5. Tank silt
6. Panchagavya
7. Jiwamrit
8. Amrutpani / Amrit Jal
9. Dung and urine extract

Pest management

Preventive measures

1. Crop rotation
2. Deep summer ploughing (for moisture retention and against insect pupae)
3. Seed treatment (against seed borne infections)
4. Neem cake in soil (against soil borne diseases, root grubs, etc)
5. Border crops (against sucking pests)
6. Destruction of alternate hosts to vectors
7. Light traps and bonfires (against BFSB)
8. Yellow sticky traps (against whiteflies)
9. White sticky traps (against thrips)
10. Habitat plants for natural enemies
11. Legume intercrops
12. Pheromone traps (against Leucinodes orbonalis)
13. Collection and destruction of  plants infected with little leaf of brinjal
14. Collection and destruction of parts affected with BFSB.

Curative / reactive measures

1. Neem oil spray (against sucking pests)
2. Neem Seed Kernel Extract spray
3. Culling out infested shoots (against Yellow Stem Borer)

Pest and disorders

1. Insects
   1. Brinjal Shoot & Fruit Borer [Leucinodes orbonalis]
   2. Jassids [Amarasca biguttula biguttula, Empoasca kerri]
   3. Mites [Tetranichus telurius, Oligonychus indicus]
   4. Mealy bug [Maconellicoccus hirsutus]
   5. Brinjal stemborer [Euzophora perticella]
   6. Whitefly [Bemesia tabaci]
   7. Epilachna beetle (Henosepilachan vigintioctupuntata)
   8. Thrips (Scirtothrips dorsalis)
   9. Root grub (Holotricha consanguina)
   10. Aphids ()
2. Diseases
   1. Fusarium wilt
   2. Leafspot
   3. Little leaf
3. Nutritional disorders
   1. deficiency

Natural enemies that you would find in brinjal ecosystem

1. Birds
2. Spiders
3. Ladybirds
4. Parasitic wasps

Harvesting

Credits

References