Practice Name:

Speeding up Vegetable Germination

Category	Crop Production
Crop	bitter gourd
Crop Family	Cucurbitaceae
Scientific Name	Momordica charantia
Vernacular Name	karelu,balsam-pear
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Peel of banana tree trunk (Musa paradisiaca)
Details Of Innovation	The shell of "turi" (Luffa acutangula) and "kakadi" (Cucumis sativus) seeds are very hard. Therefore, they do not grow speedily. To ensure rapid growth of the seeds, farmers of Shibsagar, Golaghat and Jorhat districts of Assam use a traditional method. They take out the upper layer of a banana tree trunk and choose a middle layer. They cut off a portion of the trunk peel of about one-and-a-half foot and keep the seeds here and press them down with a cake of dry cow dung. Then the seeds are sown. Farmers believe that there is sufficient water in the peel of banana trunk and sufficient heat is provided by cowdung. Both help in the faster germination of the seeds.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Kamal kant Gagai
District	Sivasagar
Address	Jhanji Jerhat
Languages Spoken	Assamese
Vocation	Farming
State	Assam
PIN Code	785683

PAS 1	"The seedlings which appear before blossoming are destroyed. Only those which come after the sufficent maturation of the banana bunch are permitted to grow.” https://honeybee.org/honeybee_detailed.php?ID=7205&page=2&search_case=pest%20control%20banana
PAS 2	"Microbial control, using entomopathogenic fungi and nematodes tend to be more promising. Effective strains of microbial agents are known but economic mass production and delivery systems need further development.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1023330900707
PAS 3	"Infochemicals can be used in pest monitoring and pest control, through mating disruption, mass trapping, and in aggregating herbivores at delivery sites for biological control agents.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1017/S1742758400020877
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Assam And Bengal Plain, Hot Subhumid To Humid (Inclusion Of Perhumid) Eco-Region. (15.4), Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Eastern Himalayan Region (II), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Upper Brahmaputra Valley Zone(AS-2)
Practice ID	DTP0010000002525
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/291
Reference	Lok(1)3 may-june-1996, pg.no.-11
Technology Transfer Terms	DIY