Grafting vegetable seedlings for soil borne disease resistance

Several vegetable crops grown in Bangladesh suffer serious losses due to different diseases and insects. To combat these problems, four pest-resistant varieties of eggplant and two virus-resistant varieties of pumpkin were developed. A grafting technique was developed to combat wilting in eggplant and tomato. Mass production techniques of tricho-compost and other soil amendment techniques were developed to control soilborne diseases of vegetable crops. Parapheromone traps were developed to control fruit fly in cucurbit crops. An IPM package for shoot and fruit borer control in eggplant was developed by using pheromone traps, clipping of infected shoots, infected shoot clipping, and releasing bio-control agents. An IPM package for controlling leaf eating caterpillar in cabbage and cauliflower was also developed.