Indigenous Farming :: Indigenous Technical Knowledge
BRINJAL
- In order to prevent fruit rotting in brinjal plants, a solution is made of 1 lit. of water and eight crushed leaves of Aloe vera and sprayed on the crops.
- Chrysanthemum coronaries is grown as a border crop in brinjal to control fruit borers.
- Poultry manure is applied for more yields in brinjal
- Grinding and applying the neem seeds @40kg./ac. on 35th day after transplanting gives higher yield.
- Growing castor in Brinjal fields as border crop to act as a trap crop for insects.
- Growing onion as intercrop in Brinjal to control many pests including fruit borers.
- Mixing and grinding well neem cake with Aloe vera and soaking in water for 10 days, after which spraying the filtrate to control thrips.
- Ash and turmeric powder are mixed in equal proportion and sprinkled to control aphids.
- Sprinkling of lime powder to control mealy bugs.
- Cow urine, neem oil and tobacco decoction are mixed and sprayed to control all sucking pests.
- Spraying neem cake extracts to control mites and the spotted beetle (Epilachna octopunctata) in brinjal.
CHILLIES
- Chilli seeds are immersed in biogas slurry for 1½ hours for vigorous growtj and disease resistance.
- Aadipattam (Jul. -Aug.) and Thaipattam (Jan.-Feb.) are suitable for sowing chillies. Own seeds are mostly used for chillies cultivation.
- Sheep penning is practiced for getting higher yield.
- Groundnut cake is applied to reduce the flower dropping and to increase the yield.
- To induce more flowering and to reduce flower dropping, asafoetida @ 1 kg/ac is powdered, tied in a cloth and placed in the irrigation channel.
- Growing castor as border crop to act as a trap crop for tobacco cut worms.
- Tows of maize or sorghum are grown for every five rows of chillies to control mosaic disease.
- Spraying the leaf extract of Prosopis juliflora, two months after planting to control leaf spot, powdery mildew and fruit rot in ctiillies.
- To control leaf curl and to encourage good growth in chillies the leaves of neem, oleander, noichi (Vitex negundo), nuna (Morinda tinctoria), thulasi (Ocimum canum), thumbai (Leucas asapera) and Calotropis gigantea are pounded, and the solution is sprayed to control white flies.
- Leaf extract of "Vilvam" (Aegle marmelos) is sprayed to control fruit rot in chillies.
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