Practice Name:

Fertilizer

Details

Category Others
Scout HBN
Ingredients Human hair
Details Of Innovation Collect the fallen hair from the barber shop. Hair is used as a fertilizer / manure to increase the yield in the vegetables, fruits and ornamental trees. Dig a small pit around the vicinity of the ornamental tree. Add five hundred or one kilogram hair in the pit. In case of fruits and vegetables crop, add one kilogram of hair. After one month of plantation and before forty five days of flowering, the hairs are applied. While, in tomato (Lycopersicon lycopersicum) and brinjal (Solanum melongena) crop, the hairs are applied at the last phase of ploughing, to increase the production.
Innovator / Knowledge Provider R R Subramaniyam
Address Tamil Nadu
Languages Spoken Tamil
Vocation Farming
State Tamil Nadu
PAS 1 https://www.hindustantimes.com/bhopal/madhya-pradesh-to-produce-organic-fertilizer-from-human-hair/story-gZZjxpbQKjk4bFml32au2I.html
PAS 2 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290476486_Quick_Release_Nitrogenous_Fertilizer_from
Other Community Practices http://downloads.hindawi.com/archive/2014/498018.pdf
Practice ID DTP0010000002826
Annotation ID GIAN/GAVL/429
Reference Lok(3)6, Dec.-1998, Pg.No.-10
Technology Transfer Terms DIY

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