Practice Name:

To Control Chickpea Heliothis

Details
Category	Crop Protection
Crop	Chickpea
Crop Family	Leguminoseae
Scientific Name	(Cicer arietinum L.)
Vernacular Name	Bengal gram, gram and chana
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	cow urine, swamp morning-glory (Ipomoea aquatica) leaves
Details of Innovation	The foliage of legume crops is often denuded by various caterpillars. The leaves of young chickpea plants are eaten by caterpillars of Heliothis armigera, which later bore into pods and cause wholesale damage to the crop. Dusting with BHC or spraying with DDT or Endrin may be effective but the chemical route leaves harmful residues in the produce. They themselves being principal consumers of their produce, farmers of Dahod in Gujarat prefer organic methods to control the menace rather than chemicals. Damor has informed the NGO Sadguru Seva Trust that the combination of cow urine and the weed swamp morning-glory (Ipomoea aquatica) works wonders in organically controlling the caterpillars. She herself uses this practice every year in her farm. The NGO helps farmers in the region to exploit the ecologically friendly farm practice. Extract the juice of the weed and mix 500 millilitres of it to two litres of cow urine in a closed vessel. Stir well and allow to stand for three days. Filter the fermented solution and dilute in ten litres of water. Two sprays of this concoction with a weeks gap will kill most of the heliothis in chick pea (Cicer arietinum) crop. This treatment can be used equally effectively to protect pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) crop also.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Mituben Javsinghbhai Damor
City / District	Dahod
KVK District	Krushi Vigyan Kendra, Anand Agricultural University, Dahod
Address	Dahod ,Gujarat
Languages Spoken	Gujarati
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	389151

PAS_1	"Sustainable management of chickpea pod borer. A review."https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13593-017-0428-8
PAS_2	"ECOFRIENDLY MANAGEMENT OF CHICKPEA POD BORER."https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335389900_ECOFRIENDLY_MANAGEMENT_OF_CHICKPEA_POD_BORER
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) Gujrat Plains And Hills Region (XIII) , Agro-Climatic Zone (NARP) Middle Gujarat Zone (GJ-3)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	DTP0010000002982
Reference	Dahod/99/8
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/1022
Reference	Dahod/99/8
Scout	HBN