Sustainable practices for Pest and Disease management of Horticultural crops

The traditional practices, commonly known as indigenous technical knowledge (ITK) were ecological friendly, cost effective and were mostly suited for the particular situation. Painting of citrus trunk with lime against citrus trunk borer, pouring fresh milk on the crown of coconut against rhinocerous beetle, application of salt or salt solution against crown rot of coconut, smoking in the evening under mango trees against different pests, placing banana in the potato field against red ant, sparying of fish wash on vegetable crop against aphids were some of most commonly practices used by the farmers of different villages of Lakhimpur, Assam.