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To Increase the Shelf Life of Betel Palm Leaves


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Category Crop Pest & Disease Management
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Ingredients Betel palm (Areca catechu) leaves, milk, water, bamboo box.
Details of Innovation Farmer immerses bunches of the betel palm (Areca catechu) leaves covered with a cloth in diluted milk. He then stores the leaves in a bamboo packing box to increase their shelf life. The life of the leaves is believed to increase by 25 percent.

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Innovator / Knowledge Provider Jayant Dattatreya Nandapure
District Ghaziabad
KVK District Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Univ of Agriculture & Technology, Modipuram, Meerut-250110, Uttar Pradesh
Address Loni, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
Languages Spoken
Vocation Farming
State Uttar Pradesh
PIN Code 201102

PAS_1 "Betel-Nut Palm Care."https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/48578/Betel-Nut%20Palm%20Care.pdf
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone Northern Plain (And Central Highlands) Including Aravallis, Hot Semi-Arid Eco-Region (4.1),Upper Gangetic Plain Region (V),Western Plain Zone (UP-3)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID KNW0010000001279
Reference HBN database
Annotation ID GIAN/GAVL/51
State Uttar Pradesh
PIN Code 201102