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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Sowing different seeds in the same row

Sown few Desi variety seeds in a small canal. Irrigation : drip pipe Manure: Didn't applied any manure. In the same place, before I sown bottle gourd and pumpkin seeds. The vines spread over and suppressed the weeds. The dried leaves became black compost. Cleaned the vines and sown the below seeds. Would not able to upload all images. Storage space error. Will correct the errors and update soon.... Please refer Facebook page htttp://facebook.com/abcdfarming/ Yellow...

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Must know Airlayering, a way for Afforestation

Airlayering is a procedure to grow the roots on a stem or branch of a particular plant or tree. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Tried Airlayering on henna plant. The pictures are listed below. •  Firstly, removed the outer bark of the henna plant using knife. •  Before removing, make sure the knife is clean. •  After that scratch untill you find the dark and centre of the branch. •  Then clean it...

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Solutions for slugs to avoid consuming sprouts

Solution for slugs Sown different types of native variety seeds in a single row. Sprouted well. But the slugs consumed the sprouts.  Searched solutions to eliminate the slugs from farm.  Tried sprinkling salt around the plants but in vain. Nearby neighbour was using snail kill, a chemical product to get rid of slugs.  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Using a chemical product was not my aim. I tried...

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About Beema Bamboo

About Beema Bamboo • Beema Bamboo is a throneless variety. • The Bio mass and Rigidity is more compared to other Bamboo varieties. • The hallow in the middle of the Bamboo is less. • Yeild of the Beema Bamboo is nearly 50 tons from 4th year consecutively. • After 4th year you can harvest Beema bamboo every year. The yeild increases in consecutive days. • As it is a thornless variety, harvest made easy. Below is a image of Beema bamboo cut...

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Round Bottle Gourds and White birdeye chilli native varieties

I had cucumber native variety seeds. I have posted in seed swap facebook groups that cucumber seeds available for swap. A grower from Telangana by name H S Dikshit has responded for the post. He had Desi white chilli seeds and bottle gourd seeds. We summoned for seed swap. Sent 100 + extra as per germination rate to his address by registered post. He too, sent sent me seeds of white bird eye chilli and round bottle gourd seeds by post. we have exchanged...

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stages of native cucumber and how to make a cucumber juice

Here is the stages of native cucumber. A Video at the end of the post to learn how to make the Cucumber Juice. You should not add the sugar for this juice. If we had, we will lose the medicinal properties of the Cucumber. Hence, here they add native Jaggery  for the juice.                                             ...

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Saving Bottle Gourd Seeds

How to save Bottle Gourd Seeds ?      * Select one healthy Bottle gourd in the Garden.      * Don't pluck that Gourd until it dries.                                  Bottle Gourd Dried          * We need to cut...

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Experience on Growing Pumpkin and Bottle gourd in farm

Growing Pumpkins and Bottle gourd :                  Growing Pumpkins is not easy nor difficult. Mainly patience is needed. It took me Three and half to get my first Pumpkin.                 * There were Ridges with small canals at the ends of the farm.            ...

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How to prepare compost tea and use compost tea as Growth Promoter or Fertilizer

Compost Tea :                It is simple and effective solution to promote Plant Health. The effectiveness of compost tea  depends on the quality of the compost prepared. Many farmers  have observed that the Compost Tea is very effective against many pests and diseases. Preparation of Compost Tea:                  Materials Required:                 * Well matured Compost                ...

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About the Farm and works.

About the farm and works Hi, Good evening to all, Would not able to update daily about the work going on the farm. Busy with the work. A window below will say it all..! Sorry for inconvenience... 🙂 Furthers complaints or suggestions you can use send messages dialogue box on top right side... ! Thank you ☺️ (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_GB/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.1'; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,...

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Growing Rice - Food from Fields

Rice, before it is milled, is called "paddy" by English-speaking people in Asia. There are for practical purposes two sorts: rice that grows in water or "wet" rice, and "upland" rice. The latter grows on open hillsides, but only in places with a very high rainfall such as the Chin Hills of Burma. Ordinary, or wet rice is grown on a large scale in the United States and in southern Europe, and there is no doubt that its cultivation could be extended to more northern latitudes. It will grow and ripen in summer temperatures of over (min 20°C), but...

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