Practice Name:

Control of Termites

Details
Category	Crop Pest & Disease Management
Crop
Crop Family
Scientific Name
Vernacular Name
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Flour and sugar.
Details of Innovation	Ants act as a biological control against termites. They attract the common ants to termite mounds using flour and sugar. Farmers feel that by providing food they can induce the ant-hill (nest) to stay on at a place in the field .The eggs of termites are deposited near the ant hills. If a particular white ant is too heavy to manage, two to three common ants join to pull it into their home. On close observation, it also appears that the eggs, larvae, or even the caterpillars of the flying insects found on the trees, vines and shurbs etc., are removed by ants in the same way.Farmers never kill the ants and avoid walking on ant-hills. They also prevent their cattle from disturbing the ant hills. Only one species of red ants is harmful as it bores hole in the trees. But farmers never keep food for red ants at their nests.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	L M Lodha
City / District	Udaipur
KVK District	Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Badgaon, Distt. Udaipur-313001
Address	Udaipur, Rajasthan
Languages Spoken	Marwari/Hindi
Vocation	Farming
State	Rajasthan
PIN Code	313001

PAS_1	"The use of ‘natural’ insecticides from locally available plant products may be effective in some cases but, as they are not subject to the same rigorous safety and environmental evaluation as commercial pesticides, their use cannot be sanctioned unconditionally. Other locally available products, e.g. wood ash, have not been adequately evaluated. Removal of reproductives from the nest and construction of physical barriers may have limited applications, but resistant species and varieties, combined with appropriate cultural methods and, perhaps, minimal use of modern pesticides in an integrated approach, offer the greatest potential for a long term solution. The lack of critical scientific evaluation of non-chemical control makes it a field wide open for research." [Termite (Isoptera) control in agriculture and forestry by non-chemical methods: a review] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-entomological-research/article/termite-isoptera-control-in-agriculture-and-forestry-by-nonchemical-methods-a-review/0F37FCB96FA101ED30C9C9EE08DA1AF2
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Northern Plain (And Central Highlands) Including Aravallis, Hot Semi-Arid Eco-Region (4.2) Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Central Plateau & Hills Region (VIII) Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Sub Humid Southern Plain Zone (RJ-7)
Other Community Practices	"The paste of the leaf of Kitamari is applied over the wounds for helping in quick healing. The decoction of the leaf is consumed in a dose of 50 ml to treat dysmenorrhea and difficulty in labor. The decoction of the bark or whole plant is taken in a dose of about 40 ml to treat intestinal worm. The paste of the leaf of Kitamari is applied over eczema for its treatment. The powder of the seed is given with powder of black pepper to treat fever. The paste of the root is applied over the area over localized swelling for its treatment." https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Worm%20Killer.html
Practice ID	KNW0010000001017
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/824
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN