Honey Bee Network Knowledge & Innovation Database (HBNKIND)
Practice Name:
Seed Treatment
| Details | |
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| Category | Crop Pest & Disease Management |
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| Scout | HBN |
| Ingredients | Cattle urine and powder of Acorus calamus. |
| Details of Innovation | Before sowing, seeds of cereals and pulses are immersed in water mixed with cattle urine and powder of Acorus calamus. The seeds which float on the surface are thrown out since it indicates poor quality. Dried healthy seeds are used for sowing in dry lands. It is believed that this treatment develops drought resistance in the plants. |
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| Innovator / Knowledge Provider | Dr, Ramasamy |
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| District | Dindigul |
| KVK District | Gandhigram Rural University KVK, Gandhigram, Dindigul Dt. |
| Address | villages - adjoining,Di - Dindigul, Tamil Nadu |
| Languages Spoken | |
| Vocation | Farming |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| PIN Code | 624001 |
| PAS_1 | "Neem products and their agricultural applications."https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290030740_Neem_products_and_their_agricultural_applications |
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| PAS_2 | "Effect of neem (Azadirachta indica) products on seedling growth of shisham dieback."https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277303517_Effect_of_neem_Azadirachta_indica_products_on_seedling_growth_of_shisham_dieback |
| Agro Ecological Zone | Eastern Ghats (Tamil Nadu uplands and south eastern sahayadris) and Deccan plateau, hot semiarid eco-sub region (8.1) ,Southern Plateau and Hills region (X),Western zone (TN-3) |
| Other Community Practices | "Treatments included KNO3 with concentrations of 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3 percent, immersion in hot water for five min, acetylsalicylic acid 100, 200, and 300 mg L−1, ethereal sulfuric acid (60%) for 5 and 10 min, thiourea with concentrations of 0.1% and 0.3%, and prechilling for 10 days. Tap water was used as the control. Our findings indicate that KNO3 0.1% and 100 mg L−1 acetylsalicylic acid were the most effective treatments for improvement of seed germination properties in this species. In a comparison of the two mentioned treatment, KNO3 0.1% treatments is the best."[AsgharFarajollahi, BahramGholinejad, HamedJonaidiJafari, "Effects of Different Treatments on Seed Germination Improvement of Calotropispersica", Advances in Agriculture, vol. 2014, Article ID 245686, 5 pages, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/245686] |
| Practice ID | KNW0020000000461 |
| Reference | HBN database |
| Annotation ID | GIAN/GAVL/101 |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| PIN Code | 624001 |