Practice Name:

Controlling Leg Irritation in Farmers

Details
Category	Other Agri-Related Practice/Innovation
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Scout	HBN
Ingredients	The water used to cool the the iron ring, covering the bullock-cart wheels and dry cow dung.
Details of Innovation	In the summer, the iron ring covering the bullock-cart wheels breaks due to shrinkage of wood. The blacksmith joins it by heating it over fire made with dry cow dung. In the process, the ring needs to be heated till it turns red and is then replaced over the wooden wheel. To prevent the wood from burning and also to make the ring hold on to the wooden wheel, it is cooled with water. The wheel covered with red hot ring is rotated over a pit filled with water. Farmer often suffer from irritation on legs. The lower portion of the feet sweats and causes itching. Farmer makes the farmers dip their feet in the water in the pit to get relief from the irritation.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Ramesh P Mahajan
City / District	Jalgaon
KVK District	Krishi Vignyan Kendra, Pal, Tal- Rawer, Dist- Jalgaon.
Address	village : Umavinagar, district : Jalgaon, Maharashtra
Languages Spoken	Marathi/Hindi
Vocation	Farming
State	Maharashtra
PIN Code	425002

PAS_1	https://academicjournals.org/journal/IJLP/article-abstract/7AFE20145318
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone	Deccan plateau, hot semi-arid eco-region (6.3) Western Maharashtra plateau, hot moist semi-arid eco- subregion, Western Plateau and Hills Region (IX) ,Western Maharashtra Scarcity Zone (MH-6)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	KNW0010000001150
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/835
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN