<div id="MiddleColumn_internal"> <ul> <li>Application of buttermilk @ 5 lit./40 Kg seed of pulses viz. lentil, arhar, chickpea to protect the crop from wilt disease in district <strong>Chitrakoot</strong>.</li> <li>Farmers of district <strong>Shahjahanpur</strong>, broadcast 8 kg common salt to protect the paddy crop from blight disease.</li> <li>In districts <strong>Allahabad</strong><strong>, Saharnapur, Siddharthnagar</strong> and <strong>Gonda</strong>, dry neem leaves and kanja leaves are used by the farmers to store the grain like wheat, rice etc.</li> <li>Mixed cropping of arhar & jowar to protect the arhar from wilt disease in district <strong>Gonda</strong>.</li> <li>Planting of marigold after 8-10 lines of tomato or chilli to protect the crop from mosaic and nematode in <strong>Gonda</strong></li> <li>The farmers practice putting of twigs in field crops for sitting of owl to control the rats in <strong>Sultanpur</strong> district.</li> <li>Mixed cropping like arhar + urd + til + bajra is practiced in <strong>Varanasi</strong> and <strong>Mirzapur</strong> district to protect the crop from wilt.</li> <li>Spreading of cooked rice in field crop attract the birds who eat hairy catter pillar also. (<strong>Varanasi</strong>).</li> <li>The farmers of <strong>Ghaziabad</strong> to control the aphids spray water in mustard crop.</li> <li>Ash dusting is practiced in Zaid vegetables to control the red beetle in most districts of UP.</li> <li>Cutting of upper portion of leaves before transplanting of paddy to prevent the attack of stem borer in district <strong>Bijnour</strong> and <strong>Ghaziabad</strong>.</li> <li>Spray of extract of 1 kg garlic + 250 gm tobacco + 250 gm gur in 20 lit. to control Gandhi bugs in rice in <strong>Ghaziabad</strong>.</li> <li>Farmers practice mixed cropping of onion + sugarcane to control the shoot borer in sugarcane in district <strong>Mau</strong>.</li> <li>Mixed cropping of coriander + chickpea, protects chickpea from pod borer (<strong>Raebareily</strong>).</li> <li>Intercropping of marigold control nematodes in brinjal/tomato. (<strong>Raebareily & Varanasi</strong>)</li> <li>Gram seed treated with heang (Asafoetida) @ 10 gm/10 Kg seed control pod borer & wilt. Also application of 100 gm mustard Oil per 40 Kg of gram, control wilt disease (<strong>Raebareily</strong>)</li> <li>Soaking of seed in buttermilk, (@ 5 l/40 kg seed) control wilt disease in Pigeonpea and gram in districts <strong>Behraich</strong> and <strong>Shahjahanpur</strong>.</li> <li>Farmers of <strong>Bareilly</strong> are using blue bull dung (as repellant) for saving their crops from damage caused by blue bull. They sprey dung solution around field and border area of crops.</li> <li>Solution containing 10 lit. of cow urine + 1.5 Kg gur + 1.5 kg mustard oil kept for ten days in shed, then added 200 lit of water and spread on paddy crop to prevent various diseases & pest in district <strong>Bijnour</strong>.</li> <li>Dusting of ash in singara pond for fast vegetative growth and to check the disease (district <strong>Bijnour</strong>)</li> <li>Farmers are broadcasting ash to get higher yield of berseem in district <strong>Siddharthnagar</strong>.</li> <li>To develop yellow colour in mango, farmers are using, 1 gm turmeric powder mixed with 50 gm carbide for 10 kg mango during the process of ripening in district <strong>Bareily</strong>.</li> <li>Farmers are applying 8-12 kg common salt per acre with seed to control the wilt in pulse crops in district <strong>Chitrakoot</strong> & <strong>Shahjahanpur</strong>.</li> <li>Mixed cropping of coriander with gram and linseed with lentil control the pod borer & wilt respectively in district <strong>Ballia</strong>.</li> <li>Vegetable seeds are stored by mixing with sawdust of pine in district <strong>Lohaghat</strong>.</li> <li>Ash is used at the time of sowing of potato to minimize the soil borne diseases in district <strong>Lohaghat</strong>.</li> <li>Inter-cropping of groundnut with bajra in district <strong>Budaun</strong> controls nematodes.</li> <li>Extract of garlic 5 kg + tobacco 250 gm + 500 gm Neem leaf is used by the farmers of district Budaun to control the yellow mosaic in vegetables.</li> </ul> <h4>Related Resources</h4> <ul> <li><a class="pdf-icon" title="ITK in Cotton Production and Protection in India" href="https://static.vikaspedia.in/media/files_en/agriculture/best-practices/indigenous-technical-knowledge-in-cotton-production-and-protection-in-india.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Indigenous Technical Knowledge in Cotton Production and Protection in India (135KB)</a></li> </ul> </div>