Traditional Practices in Agriculture FULL - ANGOC Site

and as a contour hedge to check soil erosion. In plantations, it is
generally grown as a cover crop.
1. Redgram is also grown as an intercrop in sorghum and
groundnut and also as a border crop in sugarcane.
2. Five kg of Tobacco waste is dissolved in 10 litres of water and
diluted with 50 litres of water to control sucking pests and
caterpillars.
3. Redgram seeds are mixed with ant hill soil with little moisture,
dried and stored to avoid storage pests.
4. To reduce the incidence of store pests in redgram, smear the
seeds with Neem oil / Pognamia oil / Castor oil.
5. Castor seeds are fried, powdered and mixed with redgram
seeds to reduce pest attack during storage.
6. Storing the redgram seeds after mixing them with one kg of
‘sweet flag‘ (Acorus calamus) powder, will be sufficient to treat
50 kg of seeds to preserve them for one year.
7. Mix the dried leaves of Vitex negundo or Neem leaves with
redgram seeds before storage.
8. One kg of Neem or Vitex leaves is powdered, made as a paste
with water and mixed with 100kg of redgram seeds.
9. Drying the redgram seeds well and storing them in gunny bags
after placing dried leaves of Ocimum canum inside them helps
to prevent pod borer attack.
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