Practice Name:

Controlling the army worm

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Category	Agriculture,Crop Management,Organic crop Protection
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Limestone powder
Details Of Innovation	Literature reveals the innumerable experiments conducted by the farmers. This is one such from Latin America: A farmer extensionist from El Socorro, Comayagua, don Andres Castillo, told us that an elderly farmer taught him how to control army worm by sprinkling limestone powder into the maize. He himself tried the experiment with ashes but did not get good results.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Jeffery Bentley
District	South Andaman
KVK District	NRM Division, CIARI, Port Blair
Address	South Andaman, Andaman & Nicobar Island
Languages Spoken	Bengali/Hindi
Vocation	Farming
State	Andaman and Nicobar Islands
PIN Code	744101

PAS 1	"Armyworm in Cotton Spodoptera frugiperda" : http://agrilife.org/lubbock/files/2017/07/Fall-Armyworm- 2017-1.pdf
Agro Ecological Zone	The Islands Region-XV,Port Blair
Other Community Practices	Community-Based Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) Monitoring,Early Warning and Management- http://www.fao.org/3/CA2924EN/ca2924en.pdf
Practice ID	KNW0020000000225
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/978
Reference	HBN database
Pest Scientific Names	Spodoptera frugiperda
Technology Transfer Terms	DIY

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