Practice Name:

Ravis Mulching Method

Details
Category	Agriculture,Farm Practice,Innovation,Individual,Traditional
Crop	Banana
Crop Family	Musaceae
Scientific Name	(Musa paradisica)
Vernacular Name	Kela
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Sunhemp, sugarcane trashes, banana pseudostem.
Details of Innovation	Method of Mulching Banana: After harvesting a banana bunch, pseudostem is applied as manure for banana and also for sugarcane. For robusta banana, 10 tonnes of compost and sugar cane trashes are applied for 3 times as mulch for 1 ft . Once in 15 days irrigation is done. Due to this method weed growth is suppressed. Water holding capacity of this soil, soil fertility and earthworm population increases. Within 12 months banana bunch is harvested because of this mulching practice. Sugarcane For sugarcane, 10 tonnes of decompost farmyard manure is applied. For rattoon crop, 6 tonnes of decompost farmyard manure is applied. Banana pseudostem is also applied as mulch. Paddy For paddy, green leaves are used as mulch. Sunhemp is sown and ploughed as green manure.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Ravi Eswaramoorthy V.
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	638401

PAS_1	"Mulching Techniques to Conserve the Soil Water and Advance the Crop Production - A Review."http://cwejournal.org/volIssuenoMining/mulching-techniques-to-conserve-the-soil-water-and-advance-the-crop-production-a-review/
PAS_2	"Proper Mulching Techniques."https://www.treesaregood.org/portals/0/docs/treecare/propermulching.pdf
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
Practice ID	TAM0010000000242
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/1183
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN