<p><i>Bhindi yellow vein mosaic virus</i> (BYVMV) and <i>okra enation leaf curl virus</i> (OELCV) diseases cause substantial losses in okra production in the tropics. In developing a successful breeding strategy, okra geneticists must understand how BYVMV and OELCV disease resistance is inherited as well as recognise and utilize resistant genotypes. Six generations (P₁, P₂, F₁, F₂, BC₁, and BC₂) of two chosen crosses: Tolerant × Tolerant (T × T) and Tolerant × Susceptible (T × S) among two tolerant and a susceptible genotype for each disease were used to study the genetic control of host tolerance to BYVMV and OELCV diseases of okra. The inheritance study indicated that tolerance to BYVMV and OELCV disease was controlled by duplicate dominant genes in Tolerant × Tolerant (T × T) cross and duplicate recessive genes in Tolerant × Susceptible (T × S) cross. For both the disease reaction features, digenic epistasis was also found in the scaling and joint scaling tests. In addition, the study also indicated that Tolerant × Susceptible crosses for OELCV and BYVMV diseases produced offspring with tolerant genes for both the crosses. The results suggested selection in later generations (F₄ or F₅), or intermating among selected segregates, followed by one or two generations of selfing could break the undesirable linkage and allow accumulation of favourable alleles for improvement of these traits in okra.</p>