Practice Name:

New method of sowing garlic

Details
Category	Agriculture,Farm Practice,Innovation,Individual
Crop	Garlic
Crop Family	Amaryllidaceae
Scientific Name	(Allium sativum)
Vernacular Name	Lesun, roshun
Scout	HBN
Ingredients
Details of Innovation	In 1985, Kaliben decided toto put 20 guntha (0.2 ha) land on garlic(allium vineale). She got the field ploughed and prepared and organised the seed cloves. She then hired 10 labourers to sow the cloves in the well-manured and watered field. She herself had no idea how garlic was sown. In her maiden home, she had never come across garlic beiing cultivated. The field had been divided into 20 rows. She decided that she herself would sow the cloves in one of the rows. After 5 days, sprouts began to appear in the 19 rows that had been worked on by the experienced labourers; there was no sign of sprouts from the row she had worked on. It was then she discovered that she had placed the cloves in the seed holes the wrong side up. The cloves sown by Kaliben began sprouting after 10 days. As it turned out, the shoots from this row were healthier and bigger; also bulbs havested from this row were larger, and the yield higher. Kalibens method of sowing garlic was given a fair trial by as many as 8 farmers in Dungri. After intense evaluation, they opine that the method worked well provided the land had the facility of irrigation. Also, sowing must be performed in the right season. They discovered it helps to apply ash to the soil and to go in for interculturing with other crops along with garlic. Kaliben is quite satisfied with doing hard labour and is gratefulfor her good health. Whenever she is complimented for the technique, she admits that he had sought for nothing and was only doing what she liked best: hard work.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Kaliben Buriya
City / District	Panchmahals
KVK District	Krushi Vigyan Kendra, National Research Centre for Horticulture Crops(ICAR), Vejalpur, Godhra, Distt. Panchmahals -389340
Address	Panchmahals, Gujarat
Languages Spoken	Gujarati
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	389001

PAS_1	"Onion and garlic werestored at a ventilated place along with their leaves”http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/9787/1/IJTK%209%283%29%20526-530.pdf Garlic can be stored for any number of days by keeping it in a vessel containing ragi grains.”https://honeybee.org/honeybee_detailed.php?ID=3585&page=1&search_case=garlic%20storage
PAS_2	"Good quality garlic bulbs, with the plant intact are brought from the fields and hung from the roof of the house. They are then used as seed when it is time for the next crop” https://honeybee.org/honeybee_detailed.php?ID=4555&page=2&search_case=garlic%20storage onion and garlic are stored in a mesh bags and hanging method”http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/19438
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Madhya Bharat plateau Western Malwa plateau, Eastern Gujarat plain, Vindhyan and Satpura range and Narmada Valley hot, moist semi-arid eco-subregion (5.2), Agro-Climatic Region (Planning Commission) Gujarat Plains and Hills Region (XIII), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Middle Gujarat Agro Climatic Zone (GJ-3)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	KNW0020000000131
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/923
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN