Practice Name:

Compost from Milk Hedge Plant

Details
Category	Natural Resource Management
Crop
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Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Milk hedge plant (Euphorbia nivulia), dung, grass
Details of Innovation	Generally compost is prepared from dung, urine and other waste material found on the farm. In the same way, milk hedge plants (Euphorbia nivulia) are used in making compost. About 50 to100 kg green branches of milk hedge plant are cut to pieces of about one to one and half feet length. Covere these pieces with dung. Rain water during the monsoon season is allowed to fall on it. Again on this compost, a layer of grass and branches of milk hedge plant are added and the mixture is covered with dung. This compost is put to use in the next year. This compost so prepared is found to be very effective for crop plants.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Shambhaubhai Malbhai Mundwada
District	Panchmahals
KVK District	Krushi Vigyan Kendra, National Research Centre for Horticulture Crops(ICAR), Vejalpur, Godhra, Distt. Panchmahals -389340
Address	Gada Santrampur Panchmahals Gujarat
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	389260

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Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Madhya Bharat plateau Western Malwa plateau, Eastern Gujarat plain, Vindhyan and Satpura range and Narmada Valley hot, moist semi-arid eco-subregion (5.2), Agro-Climatic Region (Planning Commission) Gujarat Plains and Hills Region (XIII), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Middle Gujarat Agro Climatic Zone (GJ-3)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	DTP0010000002579
Reference	lok (2) 4 Aug 1997, Pg No. 5
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/310
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	389260