Horticulture sector covering only 8.00 per cent of total crop area in the country and contributes 24.50 per cent to G.D.P. and 54.55 per cent to export earning in agriculture sector. Brinjal is an important and indigenous vegetable crop of India. It contributes 9 per cent of the total vegetable production of the country....

Farmers are using excessive amount of pesticides in a wrong manner with disproportionate dosage, which leads to a higher cost of cultivation as well as ecological imbalance....