author(s)
Pallavi Talukdar and Manoshi Baruah Deka

abstract
The indigenous technical knowledge (ITK) is an ecofriendly, cost effective and mostly suited practices for marginal and poor farmers. These practices are crop, pests and location specific. The practices are quite fit to the ecological conditions and make use of local available resources. With the advent of modern agricultural practices, after the green revolution, chemical driven agriculture drove away some of the practices from the farmers field. The present changing trend of agriculture demands the use of such ITK as a component of integrated pest management in the farmers’ field with scientific interventions. Documentation of these practices and their rationale is considered as a need of the time.