Practice Name:

Sugarcane in soil conservation

Details
Category	Agriculture
Crop	Sugarcane
Crop Family	Poaceae
Scientific Name	(Saccharum officinarum)
Vernacular Name	Shardi
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Sugarcane
Details of Innovation	Literature reveals the innumerable experiments of farmers. This is an example of a farmers invention in Latin America: In Zacate Blanco, Intibuca, Eliasar Mejia and his father use sugarcane (Saccarum officinarum) as a live barrier for soil conservation, because they had observed that the sugarcane did not lower the yield of the rows of maize next to the barrier, while king grass (Pennisetum purpureum Schum.) would. They had also placed stones in the branches of an apple tree (Pyrus malus) to make harvesting easier (the stones make the branches grow horizontally); they had picked up this idea from coffee (Coffee arabica) farmers.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Jeffery Bentley
City / District	South Andaman
KVK District	NRM Division, CIARI, Port Blair
Address	South Andaman, Andaman & Nicobar Island
Languages Spoken	Bengali/Hindi
Vocation	Farming
State	Andaman and Nicobar Islands
PIN Code	744101

PAS_1	"WHITE GRUBS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT IN GROUNDNUT" - https://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/bitstream/123456789/4520/1/WHITE%20GRUBS%20AND%20THEIR%20MANAGE MENT%20IN%20GROUNDNUT.pdf
PAS_2	"Intercropping in Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.): A Review" – http://www.ijpab.com/form/2017%20Volume%205,%20issue%202/IJPAB-2017-5-2-319-323.pdf
Agro Ecological Zone	The Islands Region-XV,Port Blair
Other Community Practices	Community-Based Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) Monitoring,Early Warning and Management- http://www.fao.org/3/CA2924EN/ca2924en.pdf
Practice ID	KNW0020000000221
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/976
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN