Detail:

An oil lamp is lit and kept inside the barn and the barn is made air tight. The burning lamp slowly consumes all the oxygen in the barn, making the insects difficult to survive. The grain is stored in this way without being affected by insects.

Knowledge Provider / Innovator: Ikabalbhai Bavudinbhai Dheba
Agro-Ecological Zone: Western Plain, Kachchh And Part Of Kathia
Address: Mu. Mevasa, Chotila, Surendranagar, Gujarat
District: Surendranagar
State: Gujarat
PIN Code 363520

Ingredients: barn, lamp

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PAS 1:

“Indigenous grain structures and methods of storage”
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/6811

PAS 2:

“Farmers use traditional storage containers for storing food grains for their own need.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0570178319300375

PAS 3:

“Dodi leaves for grain storage”
https://honeybee.org/honeybee_detailed.php?ID=9315&page=6&search_case=grain%20storage

PAS 4:

“ Dried leaves of neem and dried pepper stallk (after extracting pepper) are mixed with rice and other grains to repel storage pests”
https://honeybee.org/honeybee_detailed.php?ID=5755&page=2&search_case=grain%20storage