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preferred to bread loafs. Diabetic patients who are normally advised<br />

to avoid rice are safely recommended to eat Idlis.<br />

1. One hundred ml of Neem oil is dissolved <strong>in</strong> 10 litres of water<br />

and mixed with five gm of detergent powder; and sprayed to<br />

control powdery mildew <strong>in</strong> blackgram.<br />

2. Dry the blackgram seeds well under the Sun to avoid storage<br />

pests.<br />

3. Smear the blackgram seeds with castor oil to <strong>in</strong>crease the<br />

keep<strong>in</strong>g quality.<br />

4. Mix the blackgram with one kg sweet flag (Acorus calamus)<br />

powder for treat<strong>in</strong>g 50 kg of seed.<br />

5. Blackgram gra<strong>in</strong>s broken <strong>in</strong>to halves will escape from weevil<br />

attack dur<strong>in</strong>g storage.<br />

c. Greengram (Phaseolus aureus)<br />

Greengram is very<br />

similar to blackgram<br />

and cowpea <strong>in</strong> plant<br />

habit but it is more<br />

drought resistant than<br />

the latters. Its<br />

cultivation is spread<br />

all over the country.<br />

Gra<strong>in</strong>s, whole or split<br />

as dal are used as<br />

4

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