Practice Name:

Organic farming: Compost & Cattle rearing

Details
Category	Crop Pest & Disease Management
Crop	Nagli
Crop Family	poaceae, Gramineae
Scientific Name	(Eleusine corocona)
Vernacular Name	nagli
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Compost Preparation: Coconut trees are applied with cow dung manure and cow urine mixed with tank silt. He raises in the shade of coconut a leguminous forage "Horse gram" which meet the leguminous forage need besides adding to soil fertility. Paddy crop is applied with 25 cart loads of compost manure. Besides he sprinkles cow urine (1 liter mixed in 20 litres of water) on the foliage 3 times on 20th, 4 0th and 60th days after planting. He gets an yield of 40 bags /acre. ( One bag = 60kg) Dairy Farming: He feeds green grass (CO-2 ) and subabul @ 40 kg and 2 kg of rice bran and 0.5 kg coconut cake / animal/ day. Calcium is supplemented through drinking water @ 1 kilo lime in 200 litres water. This prevents the mastitis (inflammation of udder). The calf is separated from its mother 3 months after birth and given milk and supplementary feeding ratio. For diarrhoea of cow he treats with banana flower and turmeric. He follows homeo therapy for udder swelling and cures in a natural way.
Control Mode	poaceae, Gramineae

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Gomathi Nayagam
District	Tirunelveli
KVK District	KVK, Oormelazhagiyan, Tirunelveli District
Address	Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Tamil Nadu
PIN Code	627001

PAS_1	"Organic Farming Approach For Sustainable Coconut Cultivation "https://library.apccsec.org/paneladmin/doc/20180323052007Dr.%20H.%20p.%20Singh.146.pdf
PAS_2
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Region / Sub Region (ICAR) Eastern Ghats And TamilNadu Uplands (8.1), Agro-Climatic Region (Planning Commission) West Coast Plains And Ghat Region East Coast Plains And Hills Region (XII, XI), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Southern Zone (TN-6)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	KNW0020000000240
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/884
State	Tamil Nadu
PIN Code	627001