Practice Name:

To Improve Crop Quality


Details
Category Crop Pest & Disease Management
Crop
Crop Family
Scientific Name
Vernacular Name
Scout HBN
Ingredients Ash
Control Mode

Innovator / Knowledge Provider Gandhi Umarabhai Rasulbhai
District Bharuch
KVK District Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Po-Chaswad, Tq.: Valiya, Distt. Bharuch-393130
Address Vill: Deshad Tal:Valiya
Languages Spoken
Vocation Farming
State Gujarat
PIN Code 393135

PAS_1 "Human Urine and Wood Ash as Plant Nutrients for Red Beet (Beta vulgaris) Cultivation: Impacts on Yield Quality - The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of human urine and wood ash fertilization on the yield and quality of red beet by measuring the microbial, nutrient, and antioxidant (betanin) content of the roots. Red beets were fertilized with 133 kg of N/ha as mineral fertilizer, urine and ash, and only urine with no fertilizer as a control. The mineral-fertilized plants and urine- and ash-fertilized plants also received 89 kg of P/ha. Urine and ash and only urine fertilizer produced 1720 and 656 kg/ha more root biomass, respectively, versus what was obtained from the mineral fertilizer. Few fecal coliforms and coliphage were detected in mineral-fertilized and urine- and ash-fertilized red beet roots. The protein and betanin contents in red beet roots were similar in all treatments. In conclusion, this study revealed that urine with or without ash can increase the yield of red beet and furthermore the microbial quality and chemical quality were similar to the situation in mineral-fertilized products." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20050665/
PAS_2 "Management of root-knot disease of tomato by the application of fly ash in soil" - https://bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-3059.1997.d01-199.x
Agro Ecological Zone Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Central (Malva ) Highlands, Gujarat Plains and Kathiawar, Peninsula Ecoregion (5.2), Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Gujarat plains and hills region (XIII), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) South Gujarat Zone (GJ-2)
Other Community Practices "Besides being a laxative, senna is used in splenic enlargements, anaemia, typhoid, cholera, jaundice, rheumatism, tumours, foul breath and bronchitis, and probably in leprosy. The ease of cultivation and high price for the leaves is attracting farmers for large scale cultivation." [C., Jnanesha & Kumar, Ashish & Tk, Vanitha & Verma, Deepak. (2018). Opportunities and challenges in the cultivation of senna (Cassia angustifolia Vahl.). 06. 41-43. ] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327572522_Opportunities_and_challenges_in_the_cultivation_of_senna_Cassia_angustifolia_Vahl#:~:text=Besides%20being%20a%20laxative%2C%20senna,farmers%20for%20large%20scale%20cultivation.
Practice ID KNW0020000000337
Reference HBN database
Annotation ID GIAN/GAVL/90
State Gujarat
PIN Code 393135