Use of dried leaves in storage of grains

1. ● Stored food grains are prone to attack by insects,
pathogens and other rodents. Storing food grains along
with neem leaves repels the insects attacking the food
grains. ... Dried neem leaves are used for storing food
grains because they absorb moisture from them.
● Due to its insect repellent properties Neem is used to store
grains in houses. Sometimes Neem extracts are also used
to against the pests and insects. These extracts do not
usually kill insect pests immediately.
USE OF DRIED LEAVES FOR STORAGE OF FOOD
GRAINS

2. USE OF DRIED LEAVES FOR STORAGE OF FOOD
GRAINS
● Plants usually store food in their stem.
● But in certain plants food is stored in the leaves for which they are modified in different ways. They
usually become thick and fleshy.
● Onion the bulbs are made up of bases of fleshy leaves, which are arranged in a concentric manner
around the apical bud of shoot. The normal green leaves are aerial and thick cylindrical. They
perform photosynthesis, and food is stored in fleshy part which is under ground.