[Digestion] Info request on "Pest Repellent property of dilute slurry"

[Eric Buysman]

Dear Chanakya,
 
You may find this attachment interesting. In Cambodia some farmers prepare their own pesticide by mixing bio-slurry with a number of plants (tobacco, chili etc), then let it ferment for a couple of weeks before applying it as botanical herbicide. Farmers report that it works just as good or even better than chemical pesticides.

However, most farmers just use bio-slurry directly without this treatment. Even so, farmers report it reduces pests. In our latest monitoring survey among 165 randomly selected households we asked what the impact of applying bio-slurry was on the number of pests, 8% said no difference, 12% said no pests anymore and 76% reported experiencing less pests after applying bio-slurry. This clearly shows that bio-slurry is much more than a fertilizer.

 
Hope this is of use,
 
Cheers,
 
Eric



 

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From:Hoysall Chanakya <chanakya at astra.iisc.ernet.in>
To: For Discussion of Anaerobic Digestion <digestion at lists.bioenergylists.org> 
Sent: Monday, 6 May 2013, 19:21
Subject: [Digestion] Info request on "Pest Repellent property of dilute slurry"

Dear List users,
I would be grateful if any of you could forward me any information of
'personal experience' or 'published information' on "pest repellent"
properties of dilute or filtered biogas slurry on agricultural and
horticultural crops.  This will be used to convince a few policy makers to
push the case of Biogas plants.
Regards
Chanakya

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Dr. Hoysall Chanakya
Centre for Sustainable Technologies
(Assoc. Faculty at Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transport and
Urban Planning (CiSTUP) and Centre for Contemporary Studies)
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012
ph 91-80-2293 3046; fax-91 80 2360 0683


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