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Off-Farm Crop Protection Inputs

Organic farming practices generally encourage the use of on-farm inputs. In cases where pest incidence is high, and preventive methods fail to deliver the results and farmer is at the brink of losing the crops then use of off-farm inputs can be used as preventive or curative step. A list of popularly available off-farm plant protection inputs have been given below.

Some of the inputs (especially the permitted chemicals) are allowed as ‘restricted’ in limited quantities; therefore the certifier’s approval should be obtained before using such inputs.

Microbial Biopesticides

·       Trichoderma harzianum

·       Trichoderma viride

·       Pseudomonas fluorescens

·       Bacillus subtilis

·       Bacillus thuringiensis

·       Metarhizium anisopliae

·       Verticillium lecanii

·       eauveria bassiana

·       Nuclear Polyhedrosis Visus (NPV) and Granulosis Visrus (GV)

·       EM-5 (Termin)

Botanical extracts

·       Neem oil and Azadirachtin based formulation

·       Karanj Oil and Karanjin based formulations

·       Pyrethrin based extracts

·       Sea weeds, sea weed meal, sea weed extracts, sea salt and salty water

Permitted chemical alternatives

·       Sea salt and salty water

·       Elemental sulphur, lime sulphur

·       Copper salts/inorganic salts (Bordeaux mixture, copper hydroxide, copper oxychloride (used as a fungicide, maximum 8 kg per ha per year).

·       Chlorides of lime and soda

·       Light mineral oils

·       Permanganate of potash

·       Sodium bicarbonate

·       Soft soap

·       Ethyl alcohol,

·       Natural acids (Vinegar)

·       Homeopathic and Ayurvedic preparations

Common Organic Nutrient Management

On Farm Input :

Vermicompost (NPK 1:1:1)

Farm Yard Manure (NPK 0.5,0.5,0.5)

Composts (NPK 1:0.5:1)

De-oiled castor cake (NPK 4:1:1.5)

De-oiled neem cake (NPK 2.5:0.5:1.0)

Concentrated manures (made of poultry manure +oilcakes +rock phosphate)

Jivamrutha (dung-urine based liquid manure)

Panchagavya (or Dashagavya)

Cow urine

Vermi-wash

Vegetable derived crude amino acid extracts

Biodynamic composts and Cow pat pit

Biodynamic preparations (BD 500 to BD 507)

Biogas slurry.

Raw farm resource

Crop residue and straw

Weed biomass

Cattle shed bedding material

Lopping of N-fixing trees and other trees grown on bunds

Off Farm Input :

Bio-fertilizers

EM solution

Microbial consortia or Bio-mix

Enriched manures (with oil cakes and bone meal etc)

Phosphate rich organic manure (PROM)

Fish meal, blood meal, feather meal etc

Gluconate based chelated macro or micronutrients (for B, Ca + Mg, Zn, P & K)

Vegetable derived amino acids and seaweed extract based products

Botanical growth promoters and bio-stimulants in the form of granules for soil application and powder or liquid as foliar spray.

Homeopathic preparations

Dashparni Kashayam (Ten Leaves Extract)

Dashparni Kashayam (Ten Leaves Extract)

It is an exceptionally powerful and excellent insecticide, which is to be set up in your farm not to be obtained from the market. Dashparni implies the leaves of ten kinds of therapeutic plants. These 10 therapeutic plants have variable amount and sorts of alkaloids.

How to Prepare :

Take 200 liters of water in a barrel.

Take 2 kg of desi cow dung and blend it in this water great.

Include 10 liters of desi cow urine in the water.

Blend 200 g turmeric powder and 200 g of dried ginger powder or 500 g green ginger mash in this water.

At that point include 1 kg of tobacco powder in this water.

Get ready 1 kg mash of hot green chili, if it’s not accessible take 1 kg dried chili.

Get ready 1 kg mash of desi garlic and blend it in water. The garlic which has little size bulb and it should taste hot.

Take 2 kg of desi marigold including roots, stem leaves and blooms, chop down it in little pieces and include this water. Blend the water with these additional materials by the stick clockwise bearing great.

1.    After that, you cut down 2 kg little branches (with the leaves) of Neem tree in little pieces and add this to water.

2.    Include 2 kg of chop down bits of little parts of Karanj tree with the leaves in this water.

3.    2 kg green leaves of custard apple in this water.

4.    2 kg green leaves of Castor to the water.

5.    2 kg green leaves of Ghaneri 

6.    2 kg green leaves of kala dotra or Datura metal.

7.    2kg green leaves of Bail (Bilwapatra) 

8.    2 kg green leaves of Tulsi with inflorescence.

9.    2 kg green leaves of Aak 

10. 2 kg green leaves of Tarota 

11. 2 kg green leaves of Papaya

12. 2 kg green leave of Persian lilac 

13. 2 kg green leaves of Guava 

14. 2 kg green leaves of Mango 

15. 2kg green leaves and blossoms of Palash 

16. 2 kg green leaves of Kanher 

17. 2 kg green leaves of Bitter gourd

18. 2 kg green leaves of Five leaved pure 

19. 2 kg green leaves of Jaswand(Hibiscus)

20. 2 kg green leaves od Drumstick (Moringa)

21. 2 kg green leaves of Arjun tree

22. 2 kg green leaves of Tamarind

23. 2 kg green leaves of Moha

24. 2 kg green leaves of Ashwagandha

25. 2 kg green leaves of Pomegranate 

26. 2 kg green leaves with little bits of Babul branches.

27. 2 kg green leaves of Nutgrass

28. 2 kg green leaves of Kurantak 

29. 2 kg green leaves of Long pepper 

30. 2 kg sweet banner roots 

31. 2 kg green leaves of Bouhinia 

32. 2 kg green leaves of Asparagus 

33. 2 kg green leaves of Shankhapushpi

34. 2 kg green leaves of spreading Hogweed 

35. 2 kg green leaves of Guldandi 

36. 2 kg green leaves of Bharangi 

37. 2 kg green leaves of Bhu aamla

38. 2 kg green leaves of Ashoka tree 

39. 2 kg green leaves of Anant mul 

40. 2 kg green leaves of serpentine 

41. 2kg green leaves of Dudhani 

42. 2 kg green leaves of Aghada 

43. 2 kg green leaves of Rantulsi 

44. 2 kg green leaves of kutki 

45. 2 kg green leaves of Gulwel 

46. 2 kg green leaves of Hinganbet 

47. 2 kg green leaves of Supali 

48. 2 kg green leaves of Bawachi 

49. 2 kg green leaves of Brahmi

50. 2 kg green leaves of Kuchala 

For the preparation of Dashparni Kashayam, you have to select any 10 types of plants from the above list of 50. First 5 plants are most effective, in case if you don’t find then go with any 10 plants. Add these leaves of 10 plants to the 200 liters of water mixture which was already prepared.

Stir clockwise direction and keep the mixture away from direct sunlight. Close the lid of drum or barrel with any gunny bag (so that air circulation happens, but should prevent insects falling into).

Leave this mixture for 40 days to ferment. Three times a day stir the solution for 40 days. Dashaparni Kashayam will be ready by 40 days, filter the Kashayam. Now you can preserve it for 6 months. 

How to Use :

In 200 liters of water, add 5 to 10 liters of Dashparni Kashayam (filter), mix well and can be sprayed on the crops which are infected.