Practice Name:

Keeping away rodents

Details

Category	Crop Production
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	A bamboo pole of about two to three metres in length is erected firmly on the ground. A large sized teak (Tectona grandis) leaf is hung at the upper end using a 0.50 to 0.80 m long peel strip procured from leaf - rachis of a wild date palm (Phoenix sylvestris). When the leaf dries, it moves with the wind and strikes the pole making a rattling sound.
Details Of Innovation	Natural crop protection from rodents In Kankarmala village of Jhadol tehsil of Udaipur district, Bhils use a simple device to keep away nocturnal rats, mice and porcupines from Rabi crops. Many rattlers, which are locally called are erected at different points in the field, preferably towards the periphery, to scare the rodents away. To prepare a bamboo pole of about two to three metres in length is erected firmly on the ground. A large sized teak (Tectona grandis) leaf is hung at the upper end using a 0.50 to 0.80 m long peel strip procured from leaf - rachis of a wild date palm (Phoenix sylvestris). When the leaf dries, it moves with the wind and strikes the pole making a rattling sound. Besides this, the owls also use the bamboo pole-tips as a perch and help in rodent control. During the day, many insectivorous birds also use the pole as perch station.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Bhils community
Address	Maharashtra
Languages Spoken	Marathi/Hindi
Vocation	Farming
State	Maharashtra

PAS 1	"Mucuna root extracts show reasonable anti-feeding activity. This requiresfurther investigation so that it can be incorporated in future integrated pestmanagement programs." https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9892/845200f4c607d90f0e9f827c805d89abe6a9.pdf
PAS 2	"Efficacy of root extracts from (Mucuna pruriens) Fabaceae) against the desert locust, (Schistocerca gregaria) Forskål, 1775 (Orthoptera: Acrididae)." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268629712_Efficacy_of_root_extracts_from_Mucuna_pruriens_Fabaceae_against_the_desert_locust_Schistocerca_gregaria_Forskal_1775_Orthoptera_Acrididae
PAS 3	"Integrated management to reduce rodent damage to lowland rice crops in Indonesia." (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167880904002932 )
PAS 4	"Countries." https://cc4d3dc4-a-d6d9d6da-s- sites.googlegroups.com/a/irri.org/rodent-management/resources/journal-articles/books-and-book- chapters/ecologicallybasedrodentmanagement/08Singleton.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7cqMbyDZSFhEegeSzL0WrRt 8fGR9Dq5LTxhHHuD9kbDAJnd4m-rraC9NDrKgfuAgHaH0L8rIZf69cmDJdQOopeSrrJ7fECmcFhF- ITo9bD2HC4Ie2d0kV6YFMAQlXDkh88qgmekKdfadBAgVqrmc5GhEzA3cLDTaBYLtdX9c4TWlDZhEbxqFZtVneOjgTjl CA4nS4iGCVLprVei_bx8wUU3axhcYj9bLmsVbrxQ74LKSGo6KbPt-1N-mxNMv2AzzyjmAS- jVZwVJWzGYKPQ_6K6Xrdv_epF4V5VQboyJ6Q_QTadz0_olrqQjB8kWOeB1kx1- Mlemh8WlC0H9ZvgN220PPlulBg%3D%3D&attredirects=0 )
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	KNW0020000000622
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/969
Reference	HBN database
Technology Transfer Terms	DIY