Practice Name:

Preventing Blight in Cumin

Details
Category	Crop Pest & Disease Management
Crop	Cumin
Crop Family	Umbellifers
Scientific Name	(Cuminum cyminum)
Vernacular Name	Jeera, Jeeru, Jeere
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	A wooden multi-tool bar having three coulters known locally as tarfen or dantal, which is drawn through the field by a pair of bullocks.
Details of Innovation	Farmers generally sow cumin (Cuminum cyminum) seeds by broadcasting. Cumin is often infected by blight disease and consequently suffers a significant reduction in yield. Blight makes the plant turn black and wither. A farmer noticed that plants growing on bunds of the small beds in the field were not affected by the disease. This led to him devise a new method of sowing cumin seeds. He broadcast the seeds in the field and made small beds using a wooden multi-tool bar, having three colters, known locally as tarfen or dantal, drawn through the field by a pair of bullocks. This makes long, narrow ridges in the field, and the seeds blend well with the soil and accumulate on the small bunds made by ridges. According to the farmer, this contributes to a higher germination rate. The soil around the plants remains dry even during the severe cold when dewfall is very high. As a consequence, the incidence of blight is greatly reduced. Several other farmers of the same village have also begun to use this method of sowing cumin.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Bhagvanbhai Talashibhai Tavadiya
District	Bhavnagar
KVK District	Krishi Vigyan Kendra, At- Lok Bharati Sanosara, Ta- Sinhor, Dist.-Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
Address	Vallabhipur, Bhavnagar, Gujarat
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	364310

PAS_1	"Cumin wilt management – a review S Lodha& R Mawar.(2014). Cumin wilt management – a review. Journal of Spices and Aromatic Crops 145 Vol. 23 (2) : 145–155 (2014)." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302986482_Cumin_wilt_management_-_a_review/link/5dc8ed73458515143500793c/download
PAS_2	"Diseases of cumin and their management" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333446333_Diseases_of_Cumin_and_its_Management/link/5cee1fc5458515026a6399f0/download
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Central Highlands (Malwa), Gujarat Plain (5.1) , Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Gujarat Plains and hills region (XIII), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) North Saurashtra, South Saurashtra (GJ-6,GJ-7)
Other Community Practices	"Control of Wilt and Blight Diseases of Cumin through Antagonistic Fungi under in Vitro and Field Conditions" https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.951.5692&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Practice ID	KNW0010000001111
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/25
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	364310