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Tamarind Compost

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Category	Crop Pest & Disease Management
Crop
Crop Family
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Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Peels of tamarind along with the seed coat, rind and strings.
Details of Innovation	Farmer uses tamarind (Tamarindus indica) to make effective compost. Peels of tamarind and the seed coat, rind, and strings are made into rich compost and other wastes. This compost is known to reduce the soil pH and increase the activity of microbes in the soil when applied to an alkaline field. It also increases the vigor of plants in the field, aiding in the fight against insects and pests. The lowering of soil pH is probably due to the presence of excess tartaric acid in tamarind.

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Innovator / Knowledge Provider	B K Nagarathna
District	Chitradurga
KVK District	AMFU, Agro-met Advisory Services, Zonal Agricultural Research Station, Babbur Farm, Hiriyur-572 143,Chitradurga district, Karnataka State, India
Address	Chitradurga Karnataka
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Karnataka
PIN Code	577501

PAS_1	"Neem leaf extract as a natural plant pesticide in the control of fire ants." [G Viswanathan, C Paul, N Warier, S Sampath, S Jha, and S Jha, Neem leaf extract as a natural plant pesticide in the control of fire ants: Journal of Ecobiology [J. Ecobiol.]. Vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 131-135. Jun 2002.] https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/50578c8ae4b01ad7e02823c3
PAS_2	"The use of botanical pesticides offers eco-friendly pest control strategy to aid the agricultural practices. Among the various herbs, neem plant based insecticides has been the most accepted bio-pesticides, due to the presence of multiple limonoids in neem plant extracts and oil that not only provides a sustainable pest control mechanism but also prevents plant disease resistance, from various synthetic insecticides. Additionally, the efficacy of these pesticidal ingredients of neem can be augmented by encapsulating them in nanocarriers that facilitates in providing sustained and control release of phytochemicals along with site targeted delivery thus, increasing the productivity and yield of crops." [Chaudhary S, Kanwar RK, Sehgal A, et al. Progress on Azadirachtaindica Based Biopesticides in Replacing Synthetic Toxic Pesticides. Front Plant Sci. 2017;8:610. Published 2017 May 8. doi:10.3389/fpls.2017.00610]."https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5420583/
Agro Ecological Zone	Eastern Ghats And Tamil Nadu Uplands And Deccan (Karnataka) Plateau, Hot Semi-Arid Eco-Region (8.2) , Southern Plateau And Hills Region (10),Central Dry Zone (KA-4)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	KNW0010000001161
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/32
State	Karnataka
PIN Code	577501