Studies on population dynamics of fruit and shoot damage in brinjal

Abstract

The investigations were carried out during kharif 2022, on the farm of college of agriculture, Badnapur, tal- Badnapur, dist-Jalna, department of Agricultural Entomology, College of Agriculture, Badnapur, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani with the objectives of study the population dynamics of fruit and shoot damage in brinjal, The experiment was laid out in non-replicated. The percent shoot damage and fruit damage was observed from 32th SMW. The percent shoot damage and percent fruit damage varied from (9.34 to 28.13%) and (11.6 to 36.35%), respectively. The percent shoot damage and percent fruit damage reached at its peak in 38th SMW (28.13%) and 39th SMW (36.35%) respectively. Dynamics of percent shoot and fruit damage and their correlation with weather parameters revealed that percent shoot damage had positive significant correlation with relative humidity at morning.