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.
Control Mode

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