Detail:

Burn some dry cow dung cakes in the field before sowing of ragi or finger millet (Eleusine coracana) seeds. G D Lambhur of the Chipageri district in Karnataka has a unique method to make ragi or finger millet (Eleusine coracana) plants disease resistant and help them grow better.According to Lambhur if before sowing of finger millet seeds some dry cow dung cakes are burnt in the field and it rains thereafter, the finger millet plants become disease resistant and grow much faster.

Knowledge Provider / Innovator: G D Lambhur
Agro-Ecological Zone: Central dry zone, Southern dry zone, Southern transition zone (KA-4, KA-6, KA-7)
Address: Chipgeri B.O. District, Uttara Kannada. State, Karnataka
District: Uttar Kannada
State: Karnataka
PIN Code 581402

Crop: Finger Millet
Crop Family: Poaceae
Crop Scientific Name: (Eleusine coracana)
Crop Vernacular Name: Ragi, Nagli, Kodra, Mandia, Mandua, Mangal
Ingredients: Dry cow dung cakes

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PAS 1:

"COW DUNG FOR ECOFRIENDLY AND SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTIVE FARMING - Cows dung is a most important source of bio-fertilizer and used in many developing countries for generating energy. It is very effective's alternatives to chemical fertilizers by enhancing productivity in long term with maintaining the soil health and enhances the microbial population. Cowdung manure and vermicompost increases soil organic matter content, and this leads to improved water infiltration and water holding capacity as well as an increased cation exchange capacity. It is one of the renewable and sustainable energy resources through dung cakes or biogas which replace the dependence upon charcoal, fuel wood, firewood and fossil fuel etc. Beside it, application of cowdung in proper and sustainable way can enhance not only productivity of yield but also minimizing the chances bacterial and fungal pathogenic disease."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279951238_COW_DUNG_FOR_ECOFRIENDLY_AND_SUSTAINABLE_PRODUCTIVE_FARMING