Background:
The tick control program was ranked high in terms of its impact on the livelihood of resource-poor farming communities in developing countries including India. Resistance to existing chemical acaricides is widespread and newer classes of acaricides have tended to be significantly more expensive. The use of herbomineral acaricide can be an appropriate sustainable environment friendly and cost-effective alternative to limit the sole dependency on chemical acaricides.:
Technology Details:
An ideal polyherbomineral acaricide has been developed to control cattle tick by the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (ICAR) maintaining GLP and GMP using extracts of locally available plant materials and commonly known minerals. The uniqueness of newly developed herbomineral acaricide possesses remarkable antifeedant, anti ovipositional, and fecundity reducing property to limit the tick population even in the next generation of survived ticks. It has profound economic significance to tropical countries, especially in India, other Asian countries, and the African Continent. The formulation developed by IVRI would be cheaper than equivalent herbal acaricide produced outside India if any. Extensive field trial in various agro-climatic zones by topical application has been done depicting better effect even than modern chemical acaricide.