Honey Bee Network Knowledge & Innovation Database (HBNKIND)
Practice Name:
Fertilizer
| Details | |
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| Category | Others |
| Crop | |
| Crop Family | |
| Scientific Name | |
| Vernacular Name | |
| Scout | HBN |
| Ingredients | Human hair |
| Details of Innovation | Collect the fallen hair from the barber shop. Hair is used as a fertilizer / manure to increase the yield in the vegetables, fruits and ornamental trees. Dig a small pit around the vicinity of the ornamental tree. Add five hundred or one kilogram hair in the pit. In case of fruits and vegetables crop, add one kilogram of hair. After one month of plantation and before forty five days of flowering, the hairs are applied. While, in tomato (Lycopersicon lycopersicum) and brinjal (Solanum melongena) crop, the hairs are applied at the last phase of ploughing, to increase the production. |
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| Innovator / Knowledge Provider | R R Subramaniyam |
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| District | |
| KVK District | |
| Address | Tamil Nadu |
| Languages Spoken | |
| Vocation | Farming |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| PIN Code |
| PAS_1 | https://www.hindustantimes.com/bhopal/madhya-pradesh-to-produce-organic-fertilizer-from-human-hair/story-gZZjxpbQKjk4bFml32au2I.html |
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| PAS_2 | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290476486_Quick_Release_Nitrogenous_Fertilizer_from |
| Agro Ecological Zone | |
| Other Community Practices | http://downloads.hindawi.com/archive/2014/498018.pdf |
| Practice ID | DTP0010000002826 |
| Reference | Lok(3)6, Dec.-1998, Pg.No.-10 |
| Annotation ID | GIAN/GAVL/429 |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| PIN Code |