Detail:

Pests like fruit-flies, aphids, caterpillars etc. strike fruit crops such as pomegranate (Punica granatum), mango, jujube and several vegetable crops during the humid weather of monsoon. He crushes 250 g green, pungent chillies (Capsicum annuum) and one kilogram garlic (Allium sativum) cloves and soaks the crushed ingredients in one liter kerosene for two days. After this period, he filters this stock solution and mixes it in 200 L water, to be used for spraying. Vijaybhai adds further that he is using this method in his 22 acre (8900 m2 approx) fruit farm. He is using only organic fertilizers such as cow urine and dung, which ensures less pest infestation and good nutrition to the plants.

Knowledge Provider / Innovator: Vijaybhai Shah
Agro-Ecological Zone: Central Highlands (Malwa), Gujarat Plain And Kathiawar Peninsula, Semi-Arid Eco- Region (5.3)
Address: Mu. Ingrola, Babra, Amreli
District: Amreli
State: Gujarat
PIN Code 365620

Crop: Pomegranate
Crop Family: Lythraceae
Crop Scientific Name: (Punica granatum)
Crop Vernacular Name: ANAR
Formulation: He crushes 250 g green, pungent chillies (Capsicum annuum) and one kilogram garlic (Allium sativum) cloves and soaks the crushed ingredients in one liter kerosene for two days. After this period, he filters this stock solution and mixes it in 200 L water, to be used for spraying.
Ingredients: chilli (Capsicum annuum), garlic (Allium sativum), kerosene

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PAS 1:

"In this further part of a continuing series on the insect pests of fruit crops in India and their control [see RAE/A 65, 3253, etc.], notes are given on the life-history and control of major and minor insect pests of pomegranate, of which the seeds are used as spices, the juice and bark medicinally and the fruit rind for dying cloth as well as the fruit being edible in itself. The main pests are Virachola isocrates (F.), which infests the fruit and is controlled by destroying damaged fruits or by bagging young fruits or spraying them with 0.03% phosphamidon before damage begins; and the larvae of Indarbela tetraonis (Moore) and I. quadrinotata (Wlk.), which feed on the bark of many types of fruit trees and are controlled by inserting cotton-wool soaked in carbon disulfide, petrol or kerosene oil into larval holes and sealing the holes with mud, or by spraying with dichlorvos, trichlorphon, endosulfan, BHC, endrin or DDT. Among the many minor pests, scavenging insects that feed on damaged, over-ripe or rotten fruits on the soil or still on the trees are enumerated.". -
https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/19780550244