Practice Name:

Controlling Leafcutter Ants Using Plastic Bags

Details
Category	Agriculture,Crop Management,Organic crop Protection
Crop
Crop Family
Scientific Name
Vernacular Name
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Plastic bag
Details of Innovation	Literature reveals innumerable experiments conducted by farmers. This is one such from Latin America: A farmer-extensionist from Taulabe, Comayagua, Mercy Alalic Castaneda, told how elderly farmers had controlled leaf cutter ants by tying umbrella-shaped bags to the trees; the ant slips off when it starts to climb up the bag.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Jeffery Bentley
City / District	South Andaman
KVK District	NRM Division, CIARI, Port Blair
Address	South Andaman, Andaman & Nicobar Island
Languages Spoken	Bengali/Hindi
Vocation	Farming
State	Andaman and Nicobar Islands
PIN Code	744101

PAS_1	"Some seeds of vegetable crops may be treated with some kind of repellent material like camphor or kerosene whose strong smell will keep the white ants away." - http://oer.nios.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Seed_Treatment
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone	The Islands Region-XV,Port Blair
Other Community Practices	Getting rid of ants in vegetable garden https://gardeningtips.in/getting-rid-of-ants-in-vegetable-garden-a-full-guide
Practice ID	KNW0020000000226
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/160
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN