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Fresh aag fulta fruits are collected when still green, crushed in water, and then filtered. The liquid is sprayed on the crop and begins to take effect in 4-5 hours. This practice has continued unaltered since time immemorial. The surface grasshopper locally called khapedi infests sorghum during the monsoon season. Fresh aag fulta fruits are collected when still green, crushed in water, and then filtered. The liquid is sprayed on the crop and begins to take effect in 4-5 hours. This practice has continued unaltered since time immemorial. Aag Fulta is a creeper with transparent white flowers; it grows in hedgerows. Its fruit is called Tindola (Coccinia grandis). Vasava Chandiyabhai VitthalbhaiFresh aag fulta fruits are collected when still green, crushed in water, and then filtered. The liquid is sprayed on the crop and begins to take effect in 4-5 hours. This practice has continued unaltered since time immemorial. The surface grasshopper locally called khapedi infests sorghum during the monsoon season. Fresh aag fulta fruits are collected when still green, crushed in water, and then filtered. The liquid is sprayed on the crop and begins to take effect in 4-5 hours. This practice has continued unaltered since time immemorial. Aag Fulta is a creeper with transparent white flowers; it grows in hedgerows. Its fruit is called Tindola (Coccinia grandis).


About the Innovator

Knowledge Provider / Innovator: Vasava Danjibhai Vitthalbhai
Agro-Ecological Zone: South Gujarat Zone (GJ-2)
Address: Kakadkut,Valiya, Bharuch
District: Ahmedabad
State: Gujarat
PIN Code 393135

Practice Details

Crop: Sorghum
Crop Family: Poaceae
Crop Scientific Name: (Sorghum spp.)
Crop Vernacular Name: Juvar, Jawar, Finger Millete
Ingredients: Tindola (Coccinia grandis).

PAS 1:

"C. grandis is reported to have a wide range of medicinal properties. Pekamwar et al. (2013) reported C. grandis to have ‘analgesic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antiulcer, antidiabetic, antioxidant, hypoglycemic, hepatoprotective, antimalarial, antidyslipidemic, anticancer, antitussive [and] mutagenic’ properties. Very low concentrations of crude extract of C. grandis were shown to have an inhibitory effect on the cervical cancer cell line HeLa (Varalakshmi, 2012)." -
https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/14659


GIAN Reference: GIAN/UAL/755 - Practice ID: KNW0020000000311
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