Development of eggplant diseases with reference to meteorological parameter in kymore zone of Madhya Pradesh, India

Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an important Solanaceous crop widely grown in different parts of the country. Incidence of Phomopsis fruit rot was observed at 39th standard week (October 2016) till 3rd standard week (January 2017) and incidence ranged from 2.0-22.0%. Almost 10 time increase in fruit rot was recorded within 30 days during October 2016 when the average temperature 23.65ºC with 55.5% relative humidity having 9.3 sunshine hours.