Honey Bee Network Knowledge & Innovation Database (HBNKIND)
Practice Name:
Speeding up Vegetable Germination
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Category | Crop Production |
| Crop | bitter gourd |
| Crop Family | Cucurbitaceae |
| Scientific Name | Momordica charantia |
| Vernacular Name | karelu,balsam-pear |
| Scout | HBN |
| Ingredients | Peel of banana tree trunk (Musa paradisiaca) |
| Details of Innovation | The shell of "turi" (Luffa acutangula) and "kakadi" (Cucumis sativus) seeds are very hard. Therefore, they do not grow speedily. To ensure rapid growth of the seeds, farmers of Shibsagar, Golaghat and Jorhat districts of Assam use a traditional method. They take out the upper layer of a banana tree trunk and choose a middle layer. They cut off a portion of the trunk peel of about one-and-a-half foot and keep the seeds here and press them down with a cake of dry cow dung. Then the seeds are sown. Farmers believe that there is sufficient water in the peel of banana trunk and sufficient heat is provided by cowdung. Both help in the faster germination of the seeds. |
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| Innovator / Knowledge Provider | Kamal kant Gagai |
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| District | Sivasagar |
| KVK District | |
| Address | Jhanji Jerhat |
| Languages Spoken | |
| Vocation | Farming |
| State | Assam |
| PIN Code | 785683 |
| PAS_1 | "The seedlings which appear before blossoming are destroyed. Only those which come after the sufficent maturation of the banana bunch are permitted to grow.” https://honeybee.org/honeybee_detailed.php?ID=7205&page=2&search_case=pest%20control%20banana |
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| PAS_2 | "Microbial control, using entomopathogenic fungi and nematodes tend to be more promising. Effective strains of microbial agents are known but economic mass production and delivery systems need further development.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1023330900707 |
| Agro Ecological Zone | Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Assam And Bengal Plain, Hot Subhumid To Humid (Inclusion Of Perhumid) Eco-Region. (15.4), Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Eastern Himalayan Region (II), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Upper Brahmaputra Valley Zone(AS-2) |
| Other Community Practices | |
| Practice ID | DTP0010000002525 |
| Reference | Lok(1)3 may-june-1996, pg.no.-11 |
| Annotation ID | GIAN/GAVL/291 |
| State | Assam |
| PIN Code | 785683 |