| Category | Agriculture,Plant Protection |
| Crop | Paddy |
| Crop Family | Poaceae |
| Scientific Name | (Oryza sativa) |
| Vernacular Name | Rice |
| Scout | HBN |
| Ingredients | Kerosene, rope |
| Details Of Innovation | When the paddy crop attains tillering stage, its leaves are infested by small pests like armyworm and cut worms. These pests start consuming the leaves first and later on roll up the leaves and remain inside. This results in reduction of the growth rate of the crop. To overcome this problem a long rope made of jute or coconut fibre is taken and soaked with kerosene. This rope is then held by two persons standing on the edge / boundary of a plot and dragged from one end to the other in such a way that the kerosene on the rope gets thinly applied on the plants infested by the pests. This will either kill the pests or make them fall into the ground. Thus, the crop can be saved (Readers may recall that somewhat similar practice was reported in HB 3(3&4):17, 1992 for controlling pests of paddy: Ed)A handful (about 10 ml.) of kerosene mixed with five to six litres of water if sprayed on the plants can also solve the problem. Alternatively, a solution of black tobacco leaves may also serve the purpose. |
| Vocation | Farming |
| PAS 1 | Yield variability in Ethiopian agriculture can be partly explained by rainfall. The degree of yield variability over time is changed not only by the amount of rainfall, but also by the pattern and frequency of the rainfall cycle. Mean annual rainfall is often the only index of rainfall quoted for a place for the purpose of rainfall-yield relationship analysis. For agriculture, however, the critical question is how often a place receives too little, enough or too much rain for a particular form of crop production to be carried out successfully. Using station level rainfall data from 1954-1994 and agricultural production data of major cereal crops from 1980-1994 for four provinces of Ethiopia, this study attempts to show patterns of rainfall and provide insight into the preparation of an early warning system in the country. Time series analysis techniques, Auto-Regressive Moving Average (ARMA) and Vector Auto-Regressive (VAR) models are used to see the pattern of rainfall and response of yield to rainfall as well as to previous yield shocks. The results of this study show that rainfall cycle can be determined only for BELG rain in Gojjam (thirty-five years) and total rain in Harar (eleven years) and Jima (seventeen years). All other series have no cyclical component; however, drought-prone provinces show some deterministic component in the rainfall process. Results from estimation of VAR show that current levels of yield respond to previous levels of yield even more than responses to rainfall in most provinces. - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/178232/summary |
| PAS 2 | http://www.farmer.gov.in/imagedefault/pestanddiseasescrops/pestanddiseasesofrice.pdf |
| PAS 3 | "Flower: monospermoside (butein 3-e-d-glucoside) and isomonospermoside, chalkiness’, aureoles, flavonoids (palasitrin, prunetin) and steroids, triterpene, butein, butin, isobutrin, coreopsin, isocoreopsin (butin 7-glucoside), sulphurein, "[https://www.pharmatutor.org/articles/butea-monosperma-traditional-medicinal-plant-overview] |
| PAS 4 | "The study indicated Salvadora persica, a medium-sized tree can be cultivated for restoration of highly saline black soils which are not suitable for conventional arable farming." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233338896_Growth_and_Yield_of_Salvadora_persica_A_Facultative_Halophyte_Grown_on_Saline_Black_Soil_Vertic_Haplustept |
| Other Community Practices | http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/ericeproduction/PDF_&_Docs/Control_of_rice_insect_pests.pdf |
| Practice ID | KNW0010000001472 |
| Annotation ID | GIAN/GAVL/912 |
| Reference | HBN database |
| Pest Scientific Names | Spodoptera frugiperda |
| Technology Transfer Terms | DIY |
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