Practice Name:

Controlling Rats in Field Crops

Category	Crop Production
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Juice Of Water Spinach (Ipomoea Aquatica)
Details Of Innovation	In Rajasthan, water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) leaves are boiled in water and a juice is extracted from it. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) seeds are then boiled in this juice. Due to this, Sorghum seeds become poisonous. After drying, these seeds are placed near a rat burrow. The rats die after eating the poinsoned grain. The rat menace is controlled in this manner.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Ramgopal
District	Jhalawar
KVK District	Krishi Vigyan Kendra, P.O. Box No. 16, Kota Road, Jhalawar, 326001
Address	MU Baakni Jhalra patan Jhalawar Rajasthan
Languages Spoken	Marwari/Hindi
Vocation	Farming
State	Rajasthan
PIN Code	326022

PAS 1	"Antioxidant Effects of Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) Supplementation in Hyperlipidemic Rats" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3999804/
Agro Ecological Zone	Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Central Highlands (Malwa), Gujarat Plain (5.2), Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Central Plateau Hills Region (VIII), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) Humid South Eastern Plain Zone (RJ-9)
Other Community Practices	"Rodent management and wild life conservation in agricultural fields." https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Rodent-management-and-wild-life-conservation-in-Ngaomei-Singh/9a2becfc943268b113c93e42a7563062b6a62806
Practice ID	DTP0010000002541
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/409
Reference	Lok(1)3 may-june-1996, pg.no.-12
Pest Group	Rodentia
Pest Scientific Names	(Rattus rattus)
Technology Transfer Terms	DIY