Practice Name:

Pesticide for Arecanut Seedlings, Ashgourd and Pumpkin

Details
Category	Soil Management
Crop
Crop Family
Scientific Name
Vernacular Name
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Cow dung and water.
Details of Innovation	Farmers spray cow dung slurry on arecanut seedlings, ashgourd and pumpkin to save them from being destroyed by pests and monkeys. Arecanut seedlings when in the nursery stage are faced with pest menace in the form of spots and small insects. The farmers mix cowdung with water and prepare a slurry. They spray this slurry over the arecanut seedlings once or twice in a week. Thus by this method they are able to control the pests which attack the arecanut plant. The farmers also use the cow dung slurry to coat the pumpkin and ashgourd plants grown in the backyard of the house. According to them this is an effective method to control monkeys which attack the plants. Thus the vegetables are saved from the attack of monkeys till they are harvested."

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Ravi
City / District	Shimoga
KVK District	KrishiVignan Kendra, Navile, Shimoga -577 204
Address	Shimoga, Karnataka
Languages Spoken	Kannada
Vocation	Farming
State	Karnataka
PIN Code	577201

PAS_1	"Pest management in arecanut."http://14.139.158.118/docs/Frepub/English%20folder.pdf
PAS_2	"Eco Friendly Management of Arecanut Root Grub ( Leucopholis lepidophora Blanchard) in Hilly Tracts of Uttar Kannada, Karnataka."http://iskv.in/wp-content/themes/iskv/volume-pdfs/fdf44fa93dcdd8b4de902b567944e73cpages_38-40.pdf
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Western Ghats And Coastal Plain, Hot Humid region (19.2), Agro-Climatic Region (Planning Commission) West coast plains and Ghat region (XII) Southern plateau and Hills region (X), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Nothern transition zone (KA-8) Hilly zone (KA-9)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	KNW0010000001241
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/855
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN