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Make Your Own Herbal Pesticide 27307 Control fungal disease and sucking pestsRavidasbhai uses decoction of several bitter tasting plants to control sucking pest or fungal disease in crop. Take 5 kg neem leaves, 2 kg calotropis procera plant (leaves, flower, buds), 1 kg leaves of Nerium (Karen) – Clerodendrum phlomides (Arani) – Adhatoda vasica (Ardusi) – Agave Americana (Ketki), fenugreek (methi) powder. Mix these all these in 25 l of cow urine and let it rot for 15 days inan airtight container. After filtration, add to it 15-day-old fermented buttermilk. Use one litre such solution in a pump mixed with 14 l water and spray 2-3 times on affected crop at six days interval.Ravidasbhai Ramdasbhai Rathva, Nani Mankodi (Nishal Faliya), Taluka: Kawant, District: Chhota UdepurScout: Sureshbhai Chandrasinhbhai Rathva & Dinesh VasaniAll of these plants were well reported for the purpose separately -Ed.27308 White fly, and sucking pest in cotton cropSoak one kg leaves of Ipomoea aquatic(Naffatiyo), 500 g of Nicotiana tabaccum (tobacco) leaves, 200 g of red Lawsonia inermis (mehndi) leaves in 1 l three-day-old cow urine mixed in 30 l water in a drum. Close it with an airtight lid and let it rot for 7 to 10 days. Filter the solution and spray on cotton crop at an interval of 15 days to control white fly, larva and sucking pest.Puriben Madhavlal Patel, Parsa, Opp. Primary School, Taluka: Mansa, District: GandhinagarScout – Asha Rasikbhai Patel(See Bambawale, O. M; Punit Mohan; Mukta Chakraborty, Advances in Plant Sciences (1995), 8(2)224-229)27309 Pink ball worm in cotton crop.Nagjibhai Detroja uses cow urine, neem fruit and Sapindus trifoliatus (soap nut) fruit to control pink boll worm infestation in cotton. Mix the 5 kg crushed dried fruit of Neem (Azadirachata indica) and 500 to 700 g powder of Sapindus trifoliatus (soap nut) in 10 l cow urine. Keep for six days then mix it well and filter with thin cotton cloth. Use 250 g solution in a pump (15 l water) and spray on cotton crop in early morning and evening. Previously, the farmer used this practice in Abelmoschus esculantus (Okra) crop and found very good results, so he tried it on cotton crop and found good result with no extra cost. Nagjibhai Chhaganbhai Detroja, Surajdeval, Taluka: Chotila, District: SurendranagarScout: Prashantbhai GabuGupta, Patel and Patil (1991), CMA, IIMA WP 10709, https://ideas.repec.org/p/iim/iimawp/wp01079.html27310 Bajra flour for controlling cotton pest It is very heartening to note that this practice recorded way back in late eighties, and early nineties in the Honey Bee Network, still finds contemporary relevance. Soak 5 kg of 30 days old bajra flour in 10 l, ten days old decanted butter milk/whey buttermilk for 12-14 hours. Filter it with thin cloth and use one litre solution in a pump (15 l water) and spray on affected cotton crop. See control practices published in Honey Bee Newsletter and also recognised by NIF,2007, (http://nif.org.in/innovation/use_of_rotten_bajra_flour_for_control_of_diseases_and_pests_in_plants/368; also see Honey Bee Newsletter, www.sristi.org/hb_magazine/pdf/3(3_4)HBAUG-DEC_92.pdf)There are so many practices of bajra flour with different ingredient like cow urine, sour butter milk, Annona squomosa leaves, neem leaves, Ipomoea aquatica leaves and aloe vera etc., well documented in SRISTI Database.Bhupatbhai Velabhai Gohil, Tadhavaad, Taluka., Talaja, District: BhavnagarScout – Girishkumar JaniAnimal Care 27311Intestinal worm control in animalCattle suffer from many intestinal worms which affect their health and productivity. Water extract of 200 g of roots of Cynodon dactylon (Dharo grass) is administered orally twice daily. It is repeated for three days. Kamlaba also gives extract of the pods of Mucuna pruriens’ pods mixed with sour buttermilk to animals to drink.Kamlaba Kinusinh Zala, Rozad, Taluka: Talod, District: Sabarkantha – 383307Scout – Mahendrabhai Verifier – Ramjibhai Dabhi(see Huisden, Adesogan, Gaskin, Courtney, Raji, and Kang, (2010), Journal of Ethnopharmacol.127(3):669-7; Abhishek and Thakur, (2012). http://www.phytojournal.com/vol1Issue3/Issue_sept_2012/1.1.pdf) |
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Honey Bee 27(3) 11-12, 2016 |
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