Dasakavyam

Preparation

Dasagavyam is an organic perparation made from ten products in the form of Panchagavyam and certain plant extracts.

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 at 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 dasakavya for 20 minutes before planting enhances seed germination and root development.

Periodicity

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

Advantages

1.Increase growth, yield and quality of the crops

2.Controls pests like aphids, thrips, mites and other sucking pests

3.Controls diseases like leaf spot, leaf blight, powdery mildew etc.