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The present investigation was conducted during rabi seasons of 2016-17 and 2017-18 in the organic experimental farm of the institute by employing French bean cv. Swarna Priya. The experiment was designed after RCBD considering five organic treatments, viz.T1: Amritjal (1%); T2: Sanjivani (10%); T3: Shasyagavya (10%); T4: FYM @ 6 t ha-1 + Vermicompost @ 3t ha-1; and T5: Absolute Control. Different growth, yield and quality attributes of the crop were highly influenced by different organic treatments. In this context, T3: Shasyagavya (10%) emerged as the best treatment with the highest green pod yield of 21.15 t ha-1. However, quality contributing characters performed indifferently under the exposures of organically designed treatment conditions. Though, T3 (Shasyagavya 10%) once again materialized as the best treatment with higher amount of dry matter (9.54%), TSS (4.600Brix), ascorbic acid (65.27 mg 100g-1) and protein content (10.63 %) in edible green pods, respectively.

Genetic progress in quantitative traits can be improved by understanding how genes interact and estimating the consequences of combining abilities. As a result, a randomized block design with three replications was used to conduct forty crossings using a line X tester mating design with ten lines and four testers. All of the qualities were shown to be highly variable based on the ANOVA (analysis of variance) results among lines, testers, and hybrids. An estimated predictability ratio showed a high prevalence of nonadditive gene action, which was further confirmed by the lower narrow-sense heritability values for all traits. Most of the characters had high general combining ability and specific combining ability estimates, showing the relevance of both additive and nonadditive gene effects, respectively. For all of these features, however, the specific combining ability variations were greater than the general combining ability variances. Since heterosis breeding can lead to better hybrids, it may be a good idea to do so. For most yield-related parameters, such as fruit diameter, fruit per plant, marketable fruit per plant, yield per plant, marketable yield per plant, and total yield, RKML-26 and RKML-34 were the best general combiners among all lines. So, these lines might be employed as parents in hybridization programme in future to get suitable recombinants for higher fruit yield. However, the best cross combinations for commercial hybrid exploitation were RKML-26 X Pusa purple cluster (PPC) and RKML-2 X Swarna Shyamli. These crosses exhibiting higher per se performance and desirable specific combining ability effects together with either both or at least one parent as a competent combiner would be rewarding for heterosis breeding. Combining traditional breeding methods with biotechnological approaches, according to a new study, is critical for the transfer of favorable genes (traits) into farmed plants.

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Brinjal is a crop grown widely all over India and preferred by both rich and poor. The Chhotanagpur plateau of Jharkhand is famous for quality vegetable production and brinjal is very commonly grown in this region almost throughout the year. However, the most of the commercial growers using plant protection chemicals and synthetic fertilizers those are so expensive that poor farmers can’t afford. The extensive uses of agro-chemicals and synthetic fertilizers also reduce the quality of both the produce and the cultivated soil. In this context, an attempt has been made through the present investigation by growing different varieties of brinjal by adopting Vedic (Enriched Sanjeevani) Farming and Homa Induction (Agnihotra) techniques with their respective four non-chemical alternative growing approaches, viz.  E1C1: Enriched Sanjeevani (1%), E1C2: Absolute Control (inherent fertility status of the experimental plot); E2C1: Enriched Sanjeevani (1%) + Homa Induction (Agnihotra), and E2C2: Only Homa Induction (Agnihotra). Five varieties of the crop, viz. V1: Swarna Pratibha; V2: Swarna Neelima; V3: Swarna Shakti; V4: Mukta Jhuri; V5: Long Green were grown with their four replications under four growing conditions and the Randomized Completed Block Design was adopted for field trials. Different growth, yield and quality attributing characters of the crop were taken into account and findings revealed that E2C1: Enriched Sanjeevani (1%) + Homa Induction (Agnihotra) was the most suitable growing condition for V2 (Swarna Neelima) with the maximum yield (72.37 t ha-1). Different growth and yield attributes of the crop varieties (especially in the case of V2: Swarna Neelima) were highly influenced by Enriched Sanjeevani (1%) + Homa Induction (Agnihotra) [E2C1] growing condition resulting higher benefit cost ratio of 6.78. Quality contributing attributes were also highly influenced by homa induction (Agnihotra), as a consequence, higher level of dry matter, TSS, and ascorbic acid contents were estimated from almost all samples collected from E2C1: Enriched Sanjeevani (1%) + Homa Induction (Agnihotra), and E2C2: Only Homa Induction (Agnihotra) growing conditions.