In organic management, protection measures are used only in the case of problematic situations. Use of disease free seed stock and resistant varieties is the best option. There is no standard formulation or treatment methodology, available as on today, but farmers use different methods. Few of such innovative seed treating formulations are as follows:
Hot water treatment at 530C for 20-30 min.
Cow urine or cow urine-termite mound soil paste
Beejamrut
Asphoetida 250gm in one lit. of water for 10 kg seed
Turmeric rhizome powder mixed with cow urine
Panchgavya extract
Dashparni extract
Trichoderma viride (4gm/kg seed) or Pseudomonas fluorscens (10gm/kg seed)
Biofertilizers (Rhizobium/ Azotobactor +PSB)
Preparation of Beejamruta – Put 5 kg of fresh cow dung in a cloth bag and suspend in a container filled with water to extract the soluble ingredients of dung. Suspend 50 g lime in 1 lit water separately. After 12 – 16 hours squeeze the bag to collect extract and add 5 lit cow urine, 50 gm virgin forest soil, lime water and 20 lit water. Incubate for 8-12 hours. Filter the contents. The filtrate is used for seed treatment.
