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"A Herbal Booster
He crushes 100 g fresh leaves of lemon in 15 litres of water and sprays on gourd crop. This increased the fruit size, quality and yield.
The flowers, leaves and peels of lemon (Citrus limon) stimulate growth on seed germination and shoot growth in cabbage (Nath et al 2016. Int. J. Plant Biol. Res. 4(1): 1054). Peels of lemon, orange and grapefruit also exhibits nematostatic effect against M. incognita in roots of mung bean. (Tsai 2008, 195-201)1.
Lalaji Mafaji Vaghela, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Pest control in paddy and brinjal
She prepare layers of pearl millet grains (1 ft), sand (6 inches), waste leaves (1.5 ft), worm (1 kg) and cowdung (1 kg) from bottom to top in a 50 kg capacity drum with outlet at the bottom. It daily drains one litre of insecticidal formulation. For paddy, 10ml of herbal insecticide is mixed with one litre of water and for brinjal 15ml of insecticide with one litre of water. Tribal groups in Tamil Nadu (Malayali Gounder, Irulas, Kalrayan, Kolli, Nilgris, Pachamalai, Javvadu, Elagiri, Yercaud) use kitchen ash, wood ash, lime, sand, red earth, cow dung, cow dung ash, table salt, ragi husk, laterite soil, fish, goat dung, goat urine and manure and apply on the crop (Narayanasamy 2005, 64-70)2.
Also the use of sand, silica, red earth, kaolin, lime, mercury, common salt, paddy husk powder, sorghum husk, groundnut shell powder, saw dust, cow dung and cow urine for control of store pest and field crop pests. (Narayanasamy 1997, 107)3.
Mrs. Sharmishtha Prusty, Balasore, Odisha
Jiba Mruta for pest control in paddy and vegetables
In a mud vessel, Sushil mixes desi cow dung (10 kg), desi cow urine (7 to 10 liters), chickpea flour or jaggery (2 kg) with mud (1 kg), keeps the closed vessel for 42 hour at normal temperature, then adds 200 litres of water and keeps it for one more day. He apply it thrice in a day for one week on the crops.
Jeevamrutham (an organic product of cow dung, cow urine, black jiggery and chickpea flour) promotes plant growth, immunity and without harming non-targeted insects like dragonfly, spider etc., which reduce insect and pest4. Gayathri and Kumaravel (J. Horticulture, 2:4. 2015) use Jeevamirtham (cow dung 10 kg, cow urine 10 litres, jiggery 2 kg, 2kg sprouted pulse like black gram/ green gram/Bengal gram/horse gram flour) and farm soil (1 kg) is mixed in 200 litre water, than ferment for 5 to 7 days, and stirred thrice-daily. Apply the herbal solution with irrigational water on brinjal crop.
Sushil Kumar Bhoi, Sambalpur, Odisha
Preventing flower shedding in Brinjal
For an effective control of flower shedding within a week, he used the powder of dried leaves of Calotropis procera (Ait) R.Br. on standing crop, during afternoon for 2 to
3 times for an interval of 3 days. The leaf extract of Calotropis procera exhibited the best larvicidal activity against the S. litura. The plant possesses many useful properties to control insect pests (Bakavathiappan et al 2012, 135-138). Using Calotropis procera leaves mixture
for botanicals control of defoliators like S. litura and semi loopers is also an impactful remedy (Raghavendra et al 2016, 173-180).
Katara Babubhai Kodarbhai, Dungarpur, Rajasthan
Game-changing discovery for turmeric cultivation
The use of single rhizome of turmeric instead of using cluster rhizome for sowing had reduced the cost by 75 percent with similar results. Nearly, five hundred farmers started using this practice.
Indian Institute of Spices Research, Kozhikode has published the use of single rhizome for turmeric cultivation. One month before the planting, rhizomes are cut into single buds, where even the small piece of rhizomes weighing 5-7 g(IISR 2015)5.
Mithileshwar Dangi, Chatra, Jharkhand
Protecting crops from chilling injury
To control frost, he burns paddy straw, grasses and sugarcane leaves and use their ashes in standing rabi crop every morning for eight days to prevent damage by frost in rabi crops like potato, pea, wheat and vegetables. The smoke cover over the field prevent the crops from chilling injury6.
Jaleshwar Vaitha, East Champaran, Bihar
Bamboo for controlling insect pest
Ananta made a zero cost bamboo structure was made by him from locally available farm wastes to use as bird perches. The predatory birds can easily prey on insects and this method reduces around 80 to 90 percent damage from the insect pest. (see Surulivelu T. ,2003-04 for similar practices). This is a widely used practice.
Ananta Rout, Balasore, Odisha
Endnotes
1 Tsai, 2008, Plant Pathol. Bull. 17: 195-201
2 Narayanasamy 2005,. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowl- edge, Vol. 5(1): 64-70
3 Narayanasamy 1997, in Eds book 1. Biocontrol potential and its exploitation in sustainable agriculture edited by Upadhyay, Rajeev K., Mukerji, K.G., Chamola, B. P. (Eds.). Vol. 2, pp. 107
4 (http://www.cowprotectionindia.org/cow-panchagavya/)
5 IISR 2015; Turmeric Extension Pamphlet. Agricultural Technology Information Centre, ICAR- Indian Institute of Spices Research, Kozhikode - 673 012, Kerala
6 www.icar.org.in/files/Advisories_cold%20wave_frost_2014-15. pdf
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