Practice Name:

Pesticide for Areca Nut Seedlings, Ash Gourd and Pumpkin

Details
Category	Soil Management
Crop
Crop Family
Scientific Name
Vernacular Name
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Cow dung and water.
Details of Innovation	Farmers spray cow dung slurry on areca nut seedlings, ash gourd, and pumpkin to save them from being destroyed by pests and monkeys. Areca nut seedlings, when in the nursery stage, are faced with pest menace in the form of spots and small insects. The farmers mix cow dung with water and prepare a slurry. They spray this slurry over the areca nut seedlings once or twice a week. Thus by this method, they can control the pests which attack the areca nut plant. The farmers also use the cow dung slurry to coat the pumpkin and ash gourd plants grown in the backyard of their house. According to them, this is an effective method to control monkeys that attack the plants. Thus the vegetables are saved till they are harvested.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Ravi
District	Shimoga
KVK District	KrishiVignan Kendra, Navile, Shimoga -577 204
Address	Shimoga, Karnataka
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Karnataka
PIN Code	577201

PAS_1	"Eco Friendly Management of Arecanut Root Grub ( Leucopholis lepidophora Blanchard) in Hilly Tracts of Uttar Kannada, Karnataka."http://iskv.in/wp-content/themes/iskv/volume-pdfs/fdf44fa93dcdd8b4de902b567944e73cpages_38-40.pdf
PAS_2	"Important Natural Enemies of Arecanut Insect Pests."https://farmer.gov.in/imagedefault/ipm/arecanut.pdf
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Western Ghats And Coastal Plain, Hot Humid region (19.2), Agro-Climatic Region (Planning Commission) West coast plains and Ghat region (XII) Southern plateau and Hills region (X), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Nothern transition zone (KA-8) Hilly zone (KA-9)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	KNW0010000001241
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/49
State	Karnataka
PIN Code	577201