Practice Name:

Termite Control in Crops

Details
Category	Crop Production
Crop
Crop Family
Scientific Name
Vernacular Name
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	empty corn cobs and earthen pots.
Details of Innovation	Small holes of about one cm diameter are made all around the earthen pot. Empty maize cobs (sitto) are kept inside. It is covered with a narrow-necked earthen pot (surai). Several such pots are kept at various places in soil at a depth of about one meter and covered with soil carefully. Termites love empty maize cobs and are lured into the pot. After 3-4 weeks, colonies are found in the pot. These pots are removed carefully and destroyed. Some farmers make small deep pits in the field at various places in summer and add cattle dung in it. The termites get drawn to these pits. After a few days the farmer sprays kerosene over it and destroys it.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Documented by Prem Prakash Sharma
City / District	Jaipur
KVK District	KVK, Takarda (Chomu), Jaipur
Address	Jaipur Rajasthan
Languages Spoken	Marwari/Hindi
Vocation	Farming
State	Rajasthan
PIN Code	302003

PAS_1	"Eco-Friendly Termite Management in Tropical Conditions."https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-68726-1_6
PAS_2	"5 Eco-Friendly Solutions For Termite Control."https://www.greenhomepest.com/blog/post/5-eco-friendly-solutions-for-termite-control
Agro Ecological Zone	Northern Plain and Central highlands including Aravallis (4.1)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	KNW0020000000431
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/790
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN