Indigenous Postharvest Protection Measures Commonly Practiced by Farmers. A Mini Review

Abstract

This paper aims to review some of the available literature on Indigenous Postharvest Protection Measures Commonly Practiced by Farmers. Indigenous knowledge is the knowledge of the indigenous people inhabiting different geographical regions of the world with their own language, culture, tradition, belief, folklore, rites and rituals. This report is an attempt to document some of the indigenous practices followed by traditional farmers for the management of storage pests. The increasing public awareness of the environmental contamination by toxic chemical residues has necessitated the research and development of non-chemical methods. In the present study, reviewed different agricultural relevant Indigenous post-harvest protection Knowledge practiced by farmers.