KARAPPAN’S EFFORT AT CONTROLLING MOSQUITO MENACE
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| A.M.Karappan, Bilathikkulam, Kozhikkode |
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Instead of putting waste materials here and there, if we put it in a dustbin, it may not reduce the waste but it can certainly confine the same to one location and thus facilitate its easy disposal.
A
similar logic is applied by A.M.Karappan, Bilathikkulam, Kozhikkode
to contain the mosquito menace in the city.
His method is simple. Keep
water-filled open vessels outside the house to attract female mosquitoes
to lay eggs, allow the larvae to grow for 6 days and then exterminate
them.
But
why on the 6th day? Because larvae turn into mosquitos on the 7th day.
By such periodic ethnic cleaning, the area becomes less
mosquito-friendly.
In
the earlier days he was a one-man army going around in his Maruti with the
message of this inexpensive method. But
now many housing colonies have adopted the technique.
What
started as a public meeting in the United Kerala Library, Chakkorath Kulam,
grew into a movement called Mosquito Eradication Committee with
Dr.A.Achuthan as President.
While
creating awareness about the technique at a function organized by a mosque
at Thiruvannur, the Committee was pleasantly surprised to note that the
people of the area had employed a person for 2 months to carry out the
method in the locality.
Courtesy: Kerala Kaumudi, November 22, 1998
Contributed by: Administrator
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