Honey Bee Network Knowledge & Innovation Database (HBNKIND)
Practice Name:
Controlling the army worm
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| Category | Agriculture,Crop Management,Organic crop Protection |
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| Scout | HBN |
| Ingredients | Limestone powder |
| Details of Innovation | Literature reveals the innumerable experiments conducted by the farmers. This is one such from Latin America: A farmer extensionist from El Socorro, Comayagua, don Andres Castillo, told us that an elderly farmer taught him how to control army worm by sprinkling limestone powder into the maize. He himself tried the experiment with ashes but did not get good results. |
| Innovator / Knowledge Provider | Jeffery Bentley |
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| 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 | "Armyworm in Cotton Spodoptera frugiperda" : http://agrilife.org/lubbock/files/2017/07/Fall-Armyworm- 2017-1.pdf |
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| 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 | KNW0020000000225 |
| Reference | HBN database |
| Annotation ID | GIAN/GAVL/978 |
| Reference | HBN database |
| Scout | HBN |