Practice Name:

To Prevent Loss by Animals in Horticulture

Details
Category	Crop Protection and Disease Management
Crop	Maize
Crop Family	Poaceae
Scientific Name	(Zea mays)
Vernacular Name	bhutta, maize, makka, makai
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Cow dung.
Details of Innovation	It is noticed in crops like groundnut (Pennissetum typhoides), maize (Zea mays) coin other horticult hortuclture crops by an experiments was make and it was experimnent it own it is being for last fifteen to 20 years.About 50% of persons engaged in horticultare use this techiquethis techique i perfected therwe i no deisre to change it Its evelation is made depandry upon fact whether there is loss to crop or not. In humticulutrecrops and othe animals caused subatantial loss these animals eat tender potain of plants and do nbot allow developedment of palnts there same do not get therefore they eat tender and of plants. To prevents such loss take cow dung and prepare by ating water the cowdung.should be fresh so that can be prepared easliy such mixture is prepared in a vessel and spread on all the eat made once in eight to ten days this method is used by 50% of person planing horticulture crops In alternative scarecows are erected in farms or craher are also first.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Pravinbhai Merabhai Chavhan
District	Bhavnagar
KVK District	Krishi Vigyan Kendra, At- Lok Bharati Sanosara, Ta- Sinhor, Dist.-Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
Address	At Sosiya, Gujarat
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	364081

PAS_1	"Fermented solutions and extracts made with such leaves and seeds act as excellent pest repellents by creating unpleasant odors. When sprayed, these solutions prevent pests from feeding on plants (South Asia Conference on ‘Outstanding Organic Agriculture Techniques’Bengaluru, India. 10-11 September 2009." https://www.indiawaterportal.org/sites/indiawaterportal.org/files/Crop%20production%20and%20plant%20protection%20in%20organic%20farming_SR%20Sundararaman_TNFTA_Erode_OFAI%20SAC_2009.pdf
PAS_2	"Common Home made organic pesticides used in the region Fermented Butter Milk pesticide (Back to nature : Tribal farmers taking up organic farming in a big wayBack to nature : Tribal farmers taking up organic farming in a big way)"
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Central Highlands (Malwa), Gujarat Plain (5.1) , Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Gujarat Plains and hills region (XIII), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) North Saurashtra, South Saurashtra (GJ-6,GJ-7)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	DTP0010000001147
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/234
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	364081