Farm update March 2020

In March 2020, in farm we had Bottle gourd and coriander for harvest. The prices of the Bottle gourd were ranging from RS 60 to RS 80.  Everything was normal upto March 20th 2020. Due to coronavirus outbreak all over India, the transportation affected. Most of the Vegetable merchants stopped trading. Transportion stopped between districts and states after the 21 days lockdown announcement.  We waited for local vendors to sell,...

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How to avoid cross pollination between two varieties

Cross Pollination Cross pollination is pollination that happens between plants, where the pollen from the male part of a plant pollinates the female flower of another plant. This process  can happen naturally or it can be induced. Cross pollination of different types of plants happens when two types of closely related plants pollinate each other, for example: Two different types of green leaf vegetables, two different types of corn, or a pumpkin...

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Reducing Mosquito problems

Mosquitos are the major problem nowadays. On rainy season, the population of the Mosquitos increase due to various factors. The Mosquitos are one which causes dengue and transfer diseases from one person to another. The medicine for dengue is present in nature. The doctors advice to take the papaya leaves syrup at the early morning to reduce the symptoms of dengue. Here, let us discuss about a topic on how to reduce Mosquitos problems in our surroundings. Extra...

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Seed Testing how it's done for selecting quality seeds

Seed TestingSeeds can be tested to find out how many will grow. When testing seeds for personal use, place the seeds in a container of water. The seeds that sink are the good ones to be planted, the seeds that float are the bad ones and should be thrown out. Usually, almost all of the seeds will sink. For seeds that will be sold or exchanged, it is better to test them first to find out what percentage of the seeds will germinate and grow. This viability...

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Cleaning water using Moringa seeds

Moringa Seeds can be used to clean water. The seeds of the moringa tree can be used to clean water of dirt and most bacteria. This is a simple and effective way to make water drinkable. It is used in Africa, India and other countries. This technique also saves a lot of fire wood, energy and time because water does not have to be boiled. How to use the moringa seeds: 1. Remove some seeds from the pod and peel the outer shell off the seeds. 2....

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Kitchen Gardens - a way to grow vegetables for home

Kitchen garden or home garden or nutrition garden is primarily intended for continuous supply of fresh vegetables for family use. A number of vegetables are grown in available land for getting a variety of vegetables. Family members do most of works. Area of garden, lay out, crops selected etc. depend on availability and nature of land. In rural area, land will not be a limiting factor and scientifically laid out garden can be established. In urban...

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Sword beans - Native seeds

Sword beans which belongs to a beans family. It is mainly cultivated as a grain crop. The seeds are highly nutritious. The seeds are highly rich in fibre content. Canavalia gladiata, the sword beans or scimitar bean, is a domesticated plant species in the legume family Fabaceae. It is used as a vegetable in interior central and south central India, though not commercially farmed. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The...

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Recharging Borewells

This is an article on Recharging Borewells. The ground water level is decreasing. When we recklessly draw water water from the ground which has limited rain water catchement sources, we need to think on how it can be compensated. Atleast to reduce the impact on ground water level, there is a need to revive the rain water harvesting catchments.      Here, let us discuss on how recharging borewells in the farm can help to increase...

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Preparation of Vermi composting

About Vermi Composting                   Vermi Composting  is the process converting wastes into compost by use of earthworms. Good Quality compost is produced in short period depending upon the number of earthworms. In other words 4-5 kg of wastes composted by 1000 earthworms (approximately 1 kg) in a day. The commonly used earthworms like Eudrillus sp. Perionyx sp., Eisenia sp, or any locally available surface feeding (epigeic) earthworms can be collected from the nearby soil and then used in...

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Millet Movemet

MILLET Movement With ground water level going down rapidly, there is an urgent need to revive them. There are few ways to sustain. There are few crops which requires less water and they are drought resistant. They can also be grown in rainfed irrigation.  Millets like foxtail millet, finger millet, kodo millet, little millet, porso millet, barnyard millet, pearl millet etc ... Which are grain based crops which can be grown.  The...

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Sweet potato grown from root slices

Finally succeeded in growing sprouts from the sweet potato cuttings. Failed in few attempts. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Method we followed to grow sweet potato sprouts: * Purchased sweet potato from the local farmer market nearby. * Made sweet potato into few pieces with nodes using knife. * Folded the sweet potato peices with wet gunny bag. * Left it until we saw little green sprout on the nodes. * After...

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Farm update February 2020

Farm update The prices of the vegetables including bottle gourd decreased. Few resources say it's due to coronavirus. Thus, no exports or imports. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Bottle gourd price decreased to 60 RS per bag. The arrival of bottle gourd to Retail vegetable market also increased. Would not able to sell a bag to 60 RS in local markets. Seed Saving This February saved Brinjal and Okra seeds. Extracting...

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Experience on supplying farm grown vegetables to local farmer market.

From the past 1 month, we have been supplying Bottle gourd. Don't know where to start from...! Would like to share our experience in supplying vegetables to local farmer market. We planted bottle gourd seeds on the end of October 2019. It started yeilding from January 2020. Here, we used organic (poultry manure) as well as chemical fertilizers (N:P:K). Thus, it is semi organic. The bottle gourd is harvested for every two days once. That is only one day intervel between the harvests. The price of bottle gourd were down. The farm gate price of...

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