Abstract: Alternaria solani is considered as the weed of field because of its wide adaptability under various field conditions. It causes numerous diseases to various plants and even causes huge economic loss to the farmers every year. Various techniques have been used to control this pathogen under various conditions from cultural to chemical management, certainly there is more hope for better results from these techniques. Hence by this we review various techniques that have been used by the management of this pathogen and what will be the future aspects for the management under field conditions. We have considered most of the techniques that have been currently used for the management by various researchers and they have got tremendous results. Various new techniques have been listed which provides better results viz., homeopathy and plant extracts.