Practice Name:

Pearl Millet Pests Control

Details
Category	Crop Protection
Crop	Pearl millet
Crop Family	Grasses
Scientific Name	Pennisetum glaucum
Vernacular Name	bajari
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	leaves of "vankati"
Details of Innovation	Growing pearl millet (Pennisetum typhoides) crop is subject to attack by plant lice and shoot bugs. Predatory insects, like ladybird beetles, chrysopids and hoverfly maggots usually keep the pest under check. At times when predators are absent, farmers of Panchmahals district in Gujarat control the pests locally dreaded as "jotra" insect with the extract of "vankati" leaves. Pound the leaves of "vankati" to get an extract. Add water to this extract and filter. Spraying the diluted extract just once effectively controls the pest. According to Machhi, the spraying should not be carried out in the morning hours. It has to be done just before sunset so that the medicine stays on the leaves and spikes of crop overnight to have the desired impact on the pest. Most people in his neighborhood have been using this practice since a very long time.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Kalabhai Kathabhai Machhi
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	"Management of Economically Important Insect Pests of Millet ."https://academic.oup.com/jipm/article/10/1/28/5569990
PAS_2	"Pearl millet: Pests Management."https://vikaspedia.igriculture/crop-production/integrated-pest-managment/ipm-for-cerels/ipm-strategies-for-pearl-millet/pearl-millet-description-of-pests
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	DTP0010000003404
Reference	Panchmahal-95/11
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/1052
Reference	Panchmahal-95/11
Scout	HBN