Practice Name:

Smoke Scares Pests

Details
Category	Crop Pest & Disease Management
Crop	ragi or finger millet and paddy
Crop Family	Poaceae
Scientific Name	(Eleusine coracana)
Vernacular Name	Ragi, Finger millet
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Crop residue, other wastes, the bones of animals, such as of cattle and dog and the bones of humans.
Details of Innovation	The farmer reduces pest attacks in crops with the smoke generated from a specially made fire. He collects crop residue and other wastes at the edge or border of the field and is set on fire. He adds the bones of animals, such as cattle and dogs, and even the bones of humans if available in this fire. This smoke is made to pass over the field. This is known to reduce the pest attack on ragi or finger millet and paddy. The fire is set considering the direction of the wind in such a way that the smoke passes over the field, along with the wind.

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

PAS_1	"COW DUNG FOR ECOFRIENDLY AND SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTIVE FARMING - Cows dung is a most important source of bio-fertilizer and used in many developing countries for generating energy. It is very effective's alternatives to chemical fertilizers by enhancing productivity in long term with maintaining the soil health and enhances the microbial population. Cowdung manure and vermicompost increases soil organic matter content, and this leads to improved water infiltration and water holding capacity as well as an increased cation exchange capacity. It is one of the renewable and sustainable energy resources through dung cakes or biogas which replace the dependence upon charcoal, fuel wood, firewood and fossil fuel etc. Beside it, application of cowdung in proper and sustainable way can enhance not only productivity of yield but also minimizing the chances bacterial and fungal pathogenic disease." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279951238_COW_DUNG_FOR_ECOFRIENDLY_AND_SUSTAINABLE_PRODUCTIVE_FARMING
PAS_2
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	KNW0010000001163
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/33
State	Karnataka
PIN Code	577501