<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Dear Chanakya,</span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; "><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">You may find this attachment interesting. In </span><span style="background-color: transparent; "><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
12px;">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.</span></font></span></div><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span style="background-color: transparent; "><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; "><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-size: 12px;">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, </span></span></font></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">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.</span></div><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; "><br></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px;
"><span style="color: black; "> </span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Hope this is of use,</span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; "><span style="color: black; "> </span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Cheers,</span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; "><span style="color: black;
"> </span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); "><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="padding: 0px; "><span style="color: black; ">Eric</span></div></div></span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <br></div><div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4753748985"><div><div class="yiv4753748985WordSection1"><div><div><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white;"><span style="color:black;"><hr size="1" width="100%"
align="center"></span></div><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; "> Hoysall Chanakya <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:chanakya@astra.iisc.ernet.in" target="_blank" href="mailto:chanakya@astra.iisc.ernet.in">chanakya@astra.iisc.ernet.in</a>><br><b>To:</b> For Discussion of Anaerobic Digestion <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:digestion@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:digestion@lists.bioenergylists.org">digestion@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 6 May 2013, 19:21<br><b>Subject:</b> [Digestion] Info request on "Pest Repellent property of dilute slurry"</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4753748985MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span
style="color:black;"><br>Dear List users,<br>I would be grateful if any of you could forward me any information of<br>'personal experience' or 'published information' on "pest repellent"<br>properties of dilute or filtered biogas slurry on agricultural and<br>horticultural crops. This will be used to convince a few policy makers to<br>push the case of Biogas plants.<br>Regards<br>Chanakya<br><br>-- <br>Dr. Hoysall Chanakya<br>Centre for Sustainable Technologies<br>(Assoc. Faculty at Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transport and<br>Urban Planning (CiSTUP) and Centre for Contemporary Studies)<br>Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012<br>ph 91-80-2293 3046; fax-91 80 2360 0683<br><br><br>-- <br>This message has been scanned for viruses and<br>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is<br>believed to be clean.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Digestion mailing list<br><br>to Send a Message to the list, use the
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