Practice Name:

Increasing Bottle Gourd Output

Details
Category	Crop Protection and Disease Management
Crop	Bottle gourd
Crop Family	Cucurbitaceae
Scientific Name	(Lagenaria siceraria)
Vernacular Name	Dudhi, lauki
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	"ethvad", buttermilk
Details of Innovation	To increase the production of bottle gourd (Lagenaria leucantha) and buffalo gourd (Cucurbita maxima), put ethvad (brick powder) and pour buttermilk at the root of the plants. This facilitates the growth of the vegetable plants. The quantity to be used is one-litre buttermilk for each plant and a small amount of brick powder. First put little brick powder. Eight days later, pour one litre buttermilk. Repeat the process after a week. About 3000 to 4000 kg of bottle gourd and buffalo gourd production can be obtained from one bigha of land, if the practice is maintained. This method was rechecked in December 2003 and June 2004.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Banidan Mavaljibhai Gadhoi
District	Kheda
KVK District	KrishiVignan Kendra, Gujarat Vidyapith, Dethli, District:- Kheda Phone No.02694-291252, e-mail:kvkkheda@gmail.com
Address	Agat na muwadapo Bhilai
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	450110

PAS_1	"Germination of Seeds Under Water." https://www.jstor.org/stable/2435353
PAS_2	"Water realations in seed germination" - https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=AHVDtveqlpMC&oi=fnd&pg=PA351&dq=germination+seeds+BY+WATER&ots=hWKguDrh77&sig=j535yRuebc6-pUgQjZstQxZgJBs&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=germination%20seeds%20BY%20WATER&f=false
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Central Highlands (Malwa), Gujarat Plain And Kathiawar Peninsula, Semi-Arid Eco-Region (5.2) , Agro-Climatic Region (Planning Commission) Gujarat plains and hill region (XIII), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Middle Gujarat Agro Climatic zone(GJ-3), North Gujarat Zone GJ-5
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	DTP0010000001151
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/236
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	450110