Indigenous Farming :: Indigenous Technical Knowledge
Traditional Vegetable Varieties
TOMATO
- A decoction of Aloe vera, Ocimum tenuiflorum, and Aristolochia bracteolate is prepared and sprayed on tomato crop to control pests and disease and to reduce flower shedding.
- Twenty ml. of leaf extract of Bougainvillea glabra is mixed with 1 lit. of water in which the tomato seeds are soaked for six hours to control damping off in nursery.
- About 25 - 30 days old tomato seedlings are preferred for planting.
- Spraying neem oil to reduce flower droppings in tomato.
- Dissolving Chula ash and cow dung in water and spraying it to reduce flower dropping in tomato.
- Growing marigold as border crop in tomato fields to control nematode attack.
- Raising garlic or onion as border crop in tomato fields to prevent fruit borer attack.
- About 1 ½ kg. of asafoetida for one acre is tied in a cloth and kept in irrigation channel to control fruit borer.
- Fumigation is done to tomato fields with benzoin in morning and evening during flowering to control fruit borers and aphids. (Also for Lady's finger).
- Two kg. of neem kernels are powdered and soaked, in water for 10 days after which it is filtered, mixed with water and sprayed for one acre of tomato crop to control fruit borer and thrips.
- Mixing neem cake with sheep droppings and dusting on the field to control thrips.
- Dusting ash on tomato crop in the morning hours to control aphids, thrips etc. To control most of the pests in tomato, 1½kg. ash is mixed with cow dung solution and sprayed to control aphids and other sucking pests in lab-lab.
- Dissolving sarvodoya soap in water and spraying to control mealy bugs by which a film is formed around its eggs which get died.
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