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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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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