About the Practice
Detail:

Burning firewood doused in ghee is found to protect sorghum from the disease `Ratda.Farmers always keep firewood on hand to protect their sorghum from `Ratda disease. The wood is burned in the affected field and ghee (clarified butter) is added to produce smoke that brings the disease under control.


About the Innovator

Knowledge Provider / Innovator: Kuvarjibhai Chhaganbhai Chaudhari
Agro-Ecological Zone: South Gujarat Zone (GJ-2)
Address: Kavchiya, 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: Fire wood and Ghee

PAS 1:

"Monitoring of butter and ghee (clarified butter fat) for pesticidal contamination from cotton belt of Haryana, India" -
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15952515/

PAS 2:

"Occurrence and spatial distribution of pesticide residues in butter and ghee (clarified butter fat) in Punjab (India)" -
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26781716/


GIAN Reference: GIAN/UAL/757 - Practice ID: KNW0020000000312
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