Practice Name:

For storge of millets.

Details
Category	others
Crop	Pearl Millet
Crop Family	Poaceae
Scientific Name	(Pennisetum typhoides)
Vernacular Name	bulrush millet, babala, bajra, cumbu, dukhn, gero, sajje, sanio or souna
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Neem leaves, salt snuff
Details of Innovation	Due to moisture, millet is dried and stored, get spoiled. In summer, insects get spoiled, caterpillar infects are of the red month, and white Dharaera insect is red. They eat food grains by boring and make it like chatt or hollow it they infect more, more grain will be damaged For treatment, first, give heat spreading in sunlight then take per quintal of millet -500 to 750 gms salt, snuff, (Azadirachta indica) put these items mixed in millet and spoiled up to one year this method is learned from forefather.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Lakhaubhai Medhabhai Sanga
City / District	Bhavnagar
KVK District	Krishi Vigyan Kendra, At- Lok Bharati Sanosara, Ta- Sinhor, Dist.-Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
Address	Mu Kamlej, via Vartej Bhavanagar Bhavnagar Gujarat
Languages Spoken	Gujarati
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	364002

PAS_1	"Traditional farm/village storage methods."http://www.fao.org/3/T1838E/T1838E12.htm
PAS_2	"Improved Storage Stability of Pearl Millet Flour Through Microwave Treatment."https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40003-012-0040-8
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	"Management of Sorghum and Pearl Millet Pests in Bulk Storage."http://oar.icrisat.org/2113/1/Management_of_sorghum_and_pearl_millet_pests_in_bulk_storage.pdf
Practice ID	DTP0010000000915
Reference	Bhavnagar-99/2
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/741
Reference	Bhavnagar-99/2
Scout	HBN