Practice Name:

Insect Control in Sesame Crop


Details
Category Crop Pest and Disease Management
Crop Sesame
Crop Family Pedaliaceae
Scientific Name (Sesamumindicum)
Vernacular Name Til, tila
Scout HBN
Ingredients leaves of windkiller (Clerodendron phlomides) and wormkiller (Aristolochia bracteata)
Details of Innovation Farmer Manshukhbhai Nagjibhai from Bhavnagar district of Gujarat treats sesame (Sesamum indicum) seeds with a homemade solution before sowing, which controls the insects. He collects wind killer (Clerodendron phlomides), and worm killer (Aristolochia bracteata) leaves and crushes these together. He then adds 50 g water to the crushed leaves and treats the sesame (Sesamum indicum) very gently with the mixture to form a coating on the seeds. By sowing the sesame seeds thus treated the next day, not only do they grow earlier, but are also protected from insect attack in future. Identification of the plants : Wind killer (Clerodendron phlomides) plant grows 2 -3 m in height. It bears small, serrated leaves and white flowers. Wormkiller (Aristolochia bracteata) plant resembles wind killer plant, with similar leaves and flowers. Both plants are found in the monsoon, and both have poisonous leaves.

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Innovator / Knowledge Provider Mansulkhbhai Nagjibhai Mahtokia
District Bhavnagar
KVK District Krishi Vigyan Kendra, At- Lok Bharati Sanosara, Ta- Sinhor, Dist.-Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
Address Mu Lathidal Botad Bhavnagar Gujarat
Languages Spoken
Vocation Farming
State Gujarat
PIN Code 364710

PAS_1 "Seed-priming techniques in sesame (Sesamum indicum)."https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293353997_Seed-priming_techniques_in_sesame_Sesamum_indicum
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Central Highlands (Malwa), Gujarat Plain (5.1) , Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Gujarat Plains and hills region (XIII), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) North Saurashtra, South Saurashtra (GJ-6,GJ-7)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID DTP0010000000776
Reference Bhavnagar- 94/11
Annotation ID GIAN/GAVL/701
State Gujarat
PIN Code 364710