Practice Name:

Organic Farming of Grapes

Details
Category	Organic Farming
Crop	Grape
Crop Family	Grapes
Scientific Name	Vitis
Vernacular Name	draksh, angur
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	leaves of neem (Azadirachta indica), sour buttermilk, cows urine, water
Details of Innovation	Babubhai Joitabhai Patel of Sambalwad, owns a big farm house near Idar in Sabarkantha district. He has set a new trend by developing chemical free method of cultivation of grape (Vitis vinifera) crop. According to Babubhai, he planted 700 saplings of grape at a distance of 9X5 ft on 25th December 1995. From the very beginning, he was strongly determined for not using chemicals in his orchard. He used leaf extract of neem (Azadirachta indica) and neem seed oil to protect crop from diseases and insect-pests in the crop and got encouraging results . He obtained an yield of 500kg, 2000kg, and 4000kg in the year 1997, 1998 and 1999 respectively. These chemical-free products were sold to some extent by Mahadevbhai at Gandhi Ashram, by Varadhibhai Thakker at Paldi and by Jatan organization at Vadodara. Most of sales took place locally. Now there is no need to explore the market, since, customers have experienced the sweetness of the organically produced grapes (Vitis vinifera), which is many times more than the one available in the market. However, customers purchase green grapes for Rs. 30/- per kg and black grapes for Rs. 40/-per kg from his home. Machine to make an leaf extract Babubhai used an old monoblock motor to make an machine that can be used in leaf extraction. He fitted a shafting to it and attached one feet long cutter of benzo and placed it in a closed top drum of 50 L capacity. Now he is planning to place this machine in a drum of 200 L capacity. This helps in easy extraction of various herbs. For development of berry and bunch One liter sour buttermilk, and 500 ml leaf extract of neem (Azadirachta indica) and one liter cows urine are mixed together in 15 L water. Spray the obtained mixture on every tenth day to avoid invasion of insect-pests. The mixture also helps good growth of plants and bunches, berry and increases the resistance of grape plants against disease. As per the experience of Babubhai, good results of bio-agriculture can be obtained by being patient.

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Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Babubhai Jyoitabhai Patel
District	Sabarkantha
KVK District	Krishi Vigyan Kendra, S.D. Agricultural University, Khedbrahma, Taluka- Khedbrahma
Address	Mu. Sabalava Kampa Idar Sabarkantha Gujarat
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	383434

PAS_1	"Neem’s active ingredients and their impact on pests - It acts on insects by repelling them, by inhibiting feeding, and by disrupting their growth, metamorphosis and reproduction. Neem-based formulations do not usually kill insects directly, but they can alter their behavior in significant ways to reduce pest damage to crops, and reduce their reproductive potential."https://winrock.org/factnet-a-lasting-impact/fact-sheets/use-of-neem-as-a-biological-pest-control-agent/#:~:text=It%20acts%20on%20insects%20by,and%20reduce%20their%20reproductive%20potential.
PAS_2	"Evaluation of the tobacco plant as botanical pesticide [1994] - The effectivity of tobacco spray and tobacco leaf dust against insect pests of tomato, cowpea, mungo, eggplant, garlic and corn under field conditions was evaluated. Tobacco aqueous spray was prepared from ground tobacco leaves at 1:10 tobacco: water ratio. Ground tobacco leaves were used as powder dust. Water alone and two standard insecticides, Lannate and Decis, were used as controls. Treatments were applied at 10 days interval. Tobacco spray was effective against beanfly and bean aphid with a population reduction of 89 percent and 97 percent, respectively. Tobacco dust was effective against tomato cutworm and beanfly reducing their populations by 89 percent and 79 percent, respectively. Leafhopper, thrips and corn earworm were reduced by 50-69 percent using either tobacco spray or dust. Corn and tomato yields from plots sprayed with tobacco extracts amd cowpea yield from dusted plots were comparable to those sprayed with the check insecticides." https://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=PH9610779
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) North Gujarat plain (Inclusive of Aravalli range and East Rajasthan Uplands) hot, dry, semi – arid eco-subregion (4.2), Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Gujarat Plains and Hills Region (XIII) , Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) North Gujarat Agroclimatic zone (GJ-4)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	DTP0010000002910
Reference	Lok(6)1-2, Jan-Apr-2001, Pg No. 6
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/383
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	383434