Unit 19 · Materials used in AgricultureInsecticides
Words of this topic
- Insecticide: a compound used to kill or control harmful insects.
- Bio-insecticide: a pesticide made from parts of plants that insects dislike.
- Chemical insecticide: a pesticide manufactured in industry from chemicals.
- Jholmol: a liquid bio-insecticide brewed by rotting strong smelling plants with cattle urine.
- Asuro: the Malabar nut plant, placed in the soil before planting potatoes to keep insects away.
- Titepati: mugwort, a bitter plant whose liquid, together with neem, kills bedbugs.
- Residue: the trace of a pesticide that stays behind on the crop, in the soil and in the water after spraying.
- Ecosystem: the system of relationships between living things and their surroundings.
- Crop rotation: growing different crops on the same plot turn by turn.
- Agricultural lime: lime applied to reduce the acidity of soil.
- Terrace: the stepped field, called gara, cut into a slope so that soil and manure are not washed away.
- Cattle urine: mixed into the plant material while brewing a bio-insecticide.