Bird Attractant

1 kg of rice and 50 gms of turmeric powder is required to treat an acre. The rice is cooked and excess water is filtered. This is mixed with turmeric powder. Small lumps of yellow-colored rice are taken in small vessels and placed in the main field at 8 to 10 places. This is kept during the early morning and afternoon. This practice usually acts as bait on the first day; then from the second day onwards, it starts attracting the birds. When the birds feed on the rice, they feed on the semi looper larvae prevalent in the field. This procedure is repeated until the crop attains the flowering stage thereby reducing the pest attack.

Ginger, Garlic and Chilli Extract

This recipe is a mixture of 3 plant extracts. 1 kg of Garlic should be immersed in 100 ml kerosene and kept overnight. The next day, the outer skin should be removed and made into a paste. In another vessel, ½ kg chilly should be mixed with 50 ml water and made into a paste. Likewise, ½ kg of ginger should be made into a paste. All three mixtures should be mixed together with 100 liters of water and 50 grams of soap solution as an emulsifier. This mixture should be stirred well and filtered before spraying. The above quantity is needed for an acre. Allicin present in garlic serves as a repellent and capsaicin in chili serves as a pesticide.

Tobacco and Chilli Extract

Take the remains left after harvesting tobacco leaves and pound it into powder. Mix 2 kg chili powder with 3 – 4 kg tobacco powder and add 5 kg of sand to it. Dust it over the plants early morning. The above quantity is recommended for an acre.

Tobacco with Other Plant Extracts in Cow’s Urine

Take ½ kg garlic, ¼ kg chili and ¼ kg of ginger. Grind all these ingredients into a paste with a considerable quantity of water. Take 250 ml neem oil, 250 ml tobacco extract and 100 ml asafoetida extract. Dissolve the extracts of garlic, chili, ginger, neem, tobacco, asafoetida in 72 hours old cow’s urine (5 – 6 liters) and dilute with 50 – 60 liters of water. Before spraying, add an emulsifier at the rate of 4 ml per liter. This quantity is recommended for an acre.

Vitex, Pongam, Castor and Calotropis Extract

Take 7 kg each of Vitex, Pongam, Castor leaves and 4 kg of calotropis leaves. Grind the above ingredients into a powder. Mix it with 20 liters of water and boil it for half-an-hour. Keep it overnight and filter the extract the next day. Dilute the filtrate with 100 liters of water and spray it over the crops.

Pongam, Aloe and Neem Extract

1 kg of pounded Pongam cake, 1 kg of pounded Neem cake and 250 gms of pounded Poisonnut tree seed are taken in a muslin pouch. This is soaked overnight in water. In the morning the pouch is squeezed and the extract is taken out. This is mixed with ½ liter of Aloe vera leaf juice. To these 15 liters of cow’s urine. Before spraying 1 liter of this mixture is diluted with 10 liters of water. For acre 60 – 100 liters of spray is used.

Seed Treatment with Rhizome Powder and Cow’s Urine

Boil 10 liters of water and cool it the previous day itself. The next morning, add 4 liters of Cow’s urine and 200 gms of rhizome powder to the cooled water. Stir it well. Then add seeds which are to be sown to this solution and mix it well. Remove the damaged seeds which float on the surface of the solution. Allow the remaining seeds in the same solution for 15 minutes. Filter the solution and separate the seeds. These seeds can be sown directly in the field. This gives protection and resistance against pathogens and pests.

1 liter of cow’s urine and 50 gms of rhizome powder is required for treating 1 kg of seed.

Rat Control

To control rats, pieces of papaya fruit are spread near the bunds of the field. Papaya has a chemical substance that causes tissue damage in the mouth of the rats feeding on it. For an acre, 3 fruits are required.