Practice Name:

Control of Rats in Wheat Crop

Details
Category	Crop pest and disease management
Crop	wheat
Crop Family	Poaceae
Scientific Name	(Triticum aestivum)
Vernacular Name	Gehun
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Cowhage (Mucuna Pruriens)
Details of Innovation	Rats cut wheat (Triticum aestivum) and rice Oryza sativa stalks, gobbling up about 5 to 10 mound grain from each farm. To prevent the huge loss of grain, Dayabhai Chababhai Patel found a simple method to keep the rats away. What he would do is to take 10 to 12 pods of cowhage (Mucuna pruriens) and squeeze their juice in rat burrows. He would take three more each of the cowhage pods and place these in the burrows. The rats steer clear of the pod-laden burrows and set up home elsewhere. The wheat or rice crop is saved. (This method was rechecked in December 2003. The Innovator passed away in October 2002).

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Dahgabhai Chhababhai Patel
District	Kheda
KVK District	KrishiVignan Kendra, Gujarat Vidyapith, Dethli, District:- Kheda Phone No.02694-291252, e-mail:kvkkheda@gmail.com
Address	po Khadana Petlad Kheda Gujarat
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	388450

PAS_1	"Control of rodent pests." http://www.fao.org/3/t1838e/T1838E1L.HTM
PAS_2	"INTEGRATED RODENT PEST MANAGEMENT IN FIELD AND STORES."http://orienvis.nic.in/indexx.aspx?langid=1&slid=1073&mid=2&sublinkid=342
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	"Rats."http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/step-by-step-production/growth/pests-and-diseases/rats-in-pest-and-diseases
Practice ID	DTP0010000001160
Reference	Rajkot-99/2
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/530
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	388450