Practice Name:

To remove the weeds from the groundnut crop with a new farm implement

Details
Category	Pre-Harvest Farm Machinery
Crop	Groundnut
Crop Family	Fabaceae
Scientific Name	(Arachis hypogaea)
Vernacular Name	peanuts, mufali, china badam
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	New improved drill
Details of Innovation	When there are more weeds in the groundnut crop, then the instruments named beli and karabdi do not work and hence the innovator came up with the idea to make the required changes in the driller. Some drillers have five arms while the others have seven, depending on the length of the drill. In any drill, by keeping the four main arms separated at a particular distance in the crop of groundnut according to the crop along with the four arms one more arm is being attached. In this way,, for two arms, one extra arm is attached and, similarly, two twin arms are attached to the drill. By keeping some distance between these two twin arms, the new farm implement(instrument) is made. This implement is also useful for interior drilling and can also be used for making lanes. Over the last 6 years, 30 percent people in the village have been using this instrument. This farm implement is self-developed by the farmer. Many people are not using it because they fear that sand may get spread along with.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Karsanbhai Boghabhai Dihora
City / District	Amreli
KVK District	Krishi Vgyan Kendra, Junagadh Agricultural University, Keria Road, Amreli-365 611
Address	dedkadi Savarkundla Bhavnagar Gujarat
Languages Spoken	Gujarati
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	364515

PAS_1	"Weed management in organic agriculture: Are we addressing the right issues?."https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229859836_Weed_management_in_organic_agriculture_Are_we_addressing_the_right_issues
PAS_2	"MACHINES AND IMPLEMENTS FOR NON-CHEMICAL WEED CONTROL IN ORGANIC VEGETABLE GROWING."http://www.agrimachinery.net/sbornik/2017/2/03.MACHINES%20AND%20IMPLEMENTS%20FOR%20NON-CHEMICAL%20WEED%20CONTROL%20IN%20ORGANIC%20VEGETABLE%20GROWING.pdf
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Central Highlands (Malwa), Gujarat Plain And Kathiawar Peninsula, Semi-Arid Eco- Region (5.3) , Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Gujrat Plains And Hills Region (XIII) ,Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) North Saurashtra (GJ-6) South Saurashtra (GJ-7)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	DTP0010000001328
Reference	Bhavnagar-96/9
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/776
Reference	Bhavnagar-96/9
Scout	HBN