Practice Name:

Enriching soil fertility through microbes

Details
Category	Agro-biodiversity and Plant Breeding
Crop
Crop Family
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Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Bacterial culture, cow dung solution, waste, cane jaggery castor oil (Ricinus communis), ferrous sulphate
Details of Innovation	Two litres of bacterial culture is taken in 100 litre capacity drum. To this is added 10 litres of cow dung solution and 40 litres of wate and allowed to ferment. Then a bucket 8 litres of water is taken and to this is added the following: yeast 25 g cane jaggery 25 g, castor oil (ricinus communis) 50 ml. All these are well mixed and allowed to ferment for 3 hours. Then the contents of the bucket are added to the drum and well stirred. Ferrous sulphate 25g is dissolved in 2 litres of water and kept for 5 to 7 days for fermentation and then used as liquid manure. By this process beneficial microbes are multiplied.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	R Sundararaman
City / District	Erode
KVK District	MYRADA (Mysore Resettlement and Development Agency) KVK, Gobichettipalayam
Address	Erode, Tamil Nadu
Languages Spoken	Tamil
Vocation	Farming
State	Tamil Nadu
PIN Code	638001

PAS_1	"Crop rotation is a traditional and practical way for managing agroecosystem biodiversity by enhancing soil health, repressing pests and disease outbreaks (Barbieri et al., 2019), and thus increasing yields. The value and efficiency of a crop rotation depends on several factors, including crop types used in rotation (Tiemann et al., 2015), rotating series and applied frequency of certain crops (Bainard et al., 2017b), rotating length (Bennett et al., 2012), agronomic history on farmland and soil characteristics (Li et al., 2019)." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989420304790#bib128
PAS_2	"Certain crops are better in rotation than others, making it difficult to determine the best rotation sequence to maximize soil benefits (Gan et al., 2003). For example, crop rotation with grain legumes can increase productivity and protein content of wheat as the following crop, due to increased soil available N from biological fixation after legumes (Gan et al., 2003). Different chickpea genotypes (cultivars) or legume crops (such as pea and chickpea) in rotation can modify soil functional microbial communities and influence the productivity of pulse crops and the following wheat crop (Yang et al., 2013)." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989420304790#bib128
Agro Ecological Zone	Eastern Ghats And Tamil Nadu Uplands D, (8.2, 8.3),Southern plateau and hilly region (X),North-Western Zone (TN-2), Western Zone (TN-3)
Other Community Practices	"Development of Pongamiapinnata as an alternative biofuel crop — current status and scope of plantations in India [Kesari, Vigya&Rangan, Latha. (2010). Development of Pongamiapinnata as an alternative biofuel crop — current status and scope of plantations in India. Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology. 13. 127-137. 10.1007/s12892-010-0064-1.]" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225255623_Development_of_Pongamia_pinnata_as_an_alternative_biofuel_crop_-_current_status_and_scope_of_plantations_in_India
Practice ID	KNW0020000000294
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/952
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN