Vol. 9, Issue 3, Part C (2025)

For maintaining a healthy germplasm and improvement of any crop, the need for documentation and analysing the characteristics of the existing local genotypes, landraces, cultivars or farmer’s variety is very important. Therefore, the present investigation is carried out to evaluate and characterize seven brinjal genotypes along with one check variety during two consecutive rabi season of 2021-2023. A randomized block design with tree replication was adopted for conducting the experiment. The recorded data were analysed as per Panse and Sukhatme (1967) using the mean values at random plots in each replication from all genotypes to find out the significance of genotype effect. The results revealed significant variation among the genotypes. This might be due to the effect of genotype, environment or their interaction. The genotypes V5 and V2, are the highest yielder/plant for two seasons in terms of fruit per plant and yield per hectare. So, V5 and V2 are promising genotypes that can be used as parents for future hybridization programmes to develop superior types with higher yield.