Home Made Pesticide- Dasakavya

Dasagavya, is an organic preparation made from ten products in the form of panchagavya and certain plant extracts. “Gavya” is th term given to cow’s products comprising of cow dung, cow urine, cow’s milk, curd and ghee, which have miraculous effects on plant growth when suitably mixed.

Leucas aspera	Lantana camera	Datura metal
Calotrophis	Vitex negundo	Pongamia pinnata
jatropha curcas	Adathoda vasica	Azadirachta indica

The plant extracts are prepared by separately soaking the foliage in cow urine in 1:1 ratio (1 kg chopped leaves in 1 litre cow urine) for ten days. The filtered extracts of all the plants are then added @ 1 litre each to 5 litre of the panchagavya  solution. The mixture is kept for 25 days and stirred well, meanwhile, to ensure thorough mixing of panchagavya and the plant extracts.

Mode of use

The Dasagavya solution is filtered to avoid clogging of sprayer nozzles and is recommended as foliar spray at 3 % concentration. Soaking of seeds or dipping the roots of seedlings in 3 % solution of dasagavya for 20 minutes before planting enhances seed germination and root development.

Periodicity

Weekly sprays during crop growth for all vegetables and plantation crops.

Advantages

• Increases growth, yield and quality of the crops
• Controls pests like aphids, thrips, mites and other sucking pests
• Controls diseases like leaf spot, leaf blight, powdery mildew etc.