Plant Health Clinic 2022by Sandhya Adhikari | 07-05-2022 03:01 |
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     I feel extremely elated to lead " Plant Health clinic" organized by Youth Endeavour for sustainable Agriculture. We have conducted 3 days program that includes field survey at first day, lab diagnosis and identification at 2nd day and plant health camp, seed distribution, recommendation and medicine distribution as per standard format at 3rd day on Kotahimai rural municipality of Nepal DAY 1: Field Survey at farmers field to know the status of disease and pest in the proposed site for "Plant Health clinic was done and as per our survey we found that In this season, there are vegetable growers in the fields and orchards of the farmers especially leguminaceae. Apart from these, crops of Malvaceae, Leguminaceae, Ambeliiferie, Lemiaceae, Liliaceae, Solanaceae, Anacardesaeae and Spindaceae families were also found in abundance. It was found that farmers used more local varieties than improved varieties.In some places , native seeds have seen to be disease resistance but it has been observed with less production. We observed that vegetables of cucurbitaceae and solanaceae family was highly effected by the leaf feeder and borer insects beyond the economic threshold level but still they have not used any insect trapper to control insect. Farmers have been using chemical insecticides and pesticides for insect control rather than any mechanical and biological method of insect control . cucumber and pumpkin was effected with powdery mildew in high quantity. we were heart break with the farmers loss in acers and ropani of chilly and onion production that has damaged by little leaf virus and mosaic virus. We recommended about the Integrated pest management technique, cultural practices and distributed micronutrients, neem based pesticides, lures, traps and seed of seasonal vegetable. It was the most wonderful experience to lead the campaign, work for the rural community and broaden my knowledge arena itself. I express my huge thankfulness to my team member to successfully accomplish this task, my gratitude goes to my advisor and senior scientists who helped us to identify the disease and accordingly give suggestion and recommendation. To sum up it was wonderful learning experiences. |
