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Indigenous approaches for pest management in vegetables with special reference to coriander in Southern Rajasthan, India

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Title Indigenous approaches for pest management in vegetables with special reference to coriander in Southern Rajasthan, India
 
Creator Meena, Narottam Kumar
Meena, Ram Swaroop
Kanojia, Yogesh
Roat, Bapu Lal
Dangi, Narayan Lal
 
Subject Coriander
Indigenous Traditional Knowledge
Pest Management
Southern Rajasthan
Vegetables
 
Description 1053-1064
The present survey-based study was conducted to record the indigenous pest management practices which were based on
the use of various ethnobotanical plant parts, animal bi-products etc., for vegetable pest control by the farmers of tribal
communities in four tribal districts of Southern Rajasthan. Data revealed that nowadays, indigenous knowledge of insectpest
management is being kept alive in age-old people of few communities and tribes of Southern Rajasthan are amongst the
communities in which some farmers are still practicing indigenous methods for controlling pests on vegetables. 28
indigenous practices constituted by locally available wild plants constituents, animal by products, natural resource and few
spiritual means were applied with age-old knowledge of farmers recorded effective management of various insect-pests
infesting vegetables including coriander. The highest Fic value was recorded for aphids followed by thrips and jassids. The
use value was recorded in the range of 0.09 to 0.69 for all locations. The highest UV 0.69 secured for indigenous practices
of Neem leaf extract; cow butter milk + cow dung ash + chilli seed powder; Neem seed kernel extract and ker plant + neem
leaf + negadi leaf extract. These practices were easy in preparation, cost-effective, eco-friendly and widely acceptable by the
community in region need to be documented for future reference.
 
Date 2021-11-11T06:35:38Z
2021-11-11T06:35:38Z
2021-10
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/58441
 
Language en
 
Publisher CSIR-NIScPR, India
 
Source IJTK Vol.20(4) [October 2021]