Indigenous Farming :: Indigenous Technical Knowledge
DRUMSTICK
- Drumstick plants are pinched off ('Uchhi kolundukilludal') when they are at 4 - 5 feet height so as to facilitate more branching.
- Place finger shaped asafoetida just deep into the soil near the roots of drumstick trees to control hairy caterpillars.
- Crop wastes and other residues are burnt around the base of the drumstick tree to control hairy caterpillar.
- Three ratoon crops are obtained from annual drumstick
CUCUMBER
- About 10 kg. of groundnut cake is soaked overnight and in the next morning this solution is poured @ 200 ml. /hill to get more yields. Ash is sprinkled on cucumber crop to control aphids and powdery mildew.
- Cucumber seeds are extracted from fully ripened fruits, washed well with water, mixed with ash, dried and stored up to one year
SNAKE GOURD
- Soaking the seeds of snake gourd in cow dung solution for 6hour before sowing helps for early germination and withstanding drought conditions.
- Asapfoetida is dissolved in water @ 25g. per lit and sprayed to control flower dropping.
- After the harvest of snake guard, cabbage foliage is ploughed in-situ to serve as a manure
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