Use of ash on kitchen garden plant is an ITK, it pushes the pest to die of starvation and does not provide a suitable environment for egg laying..
Ash has very fine burnt particles and is sticky to watery surfaces. Insect/pest when feeding, ingest ash along which blocks the taste buds of the insects thus refraining them from eating further and ultimately dies of starvation. It targets cutting, eating and chewing insects.
(i) Puri (Ottrarkera)
(ii) Bhadrak(Palli)
(iii) Dhenkanal(Harekrushnapur)
(iv) Mayurbhanj (Tarajodi)
S.K. Srivastava, B L Attri, L. P. Sahoo, M. P. S. Arya, Geeta Saha and B. C. Behera, ICAR -Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Developed and tested
2014 – 2015 for waste utilization and creating sound environment
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