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Certain insects, flies and white ants infest the cotton crop, destroying its leaves and pods. The development of cotton plant stops completely owing to these pests and parasites. They develop resistance to insecticides and pesticides, and halt the growth of the plant and pave the way for infestation by worms. The cotton crop is totally destroyed.
Jadubhai knew the essence or tattva of the plants. Each of the herbs has a specific quality. A tree may have compound leaves that can halt even the fury of the wind. Jadubhai took a wind killer (Clerodendron phlomidis). The growth of wind killer at specific distances may in fact be a good idea because farm after farm, village after village, taluka after taluka have all been growing cotton. For the pests, it is an open hunting ground. So the wind killer could be a dependable wind breaker at least between villages. Then, Jadubhai collecte worm killer (Aristolochia bracteata) and well-known natural pesticides neem (Azadirachta indica) leaves and mamejavo (Enicostemma hyssopifolium).
He took them in equal measure, grinded them all together in relation to the insects and pests infesting cotton, and prepared a combined essence. He then sprinkled on the cotton crop twice in a fortnight. This effort was expected to give 70 per cent plant protection for the cotton crop.
Within 30 days of cotton plantation, insects come to infest the cotton crop and multiplied in the cloudy and wet weather.
As for specific proportion of the herbal protection, Jadubhai took 100 gram leaves of each wind killer (Clerodendron phlomidis), worm killer (Aristolochia bracteata), mamejavo (Enicostemma hyssopifolium) and neem (Azadirachta indica). |
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