All the readers here are directly or mostly indirectly connected with farming. Either there father, uncle, grandfather or they themselves involved previously or currently in farming business. This article will be really useful for them as well for them who want to explore farming, but need the information like what to do and how to do.
I have searched and researched lot on Organic Agriculture; I would like to share that with all of you, so that awareness about organic agriculture can be increased. So below is the excerpt of the same.
Organic agriculture means without any chemicals, fertilizers at all, it simply means natural way. Now there are so many sub branches in organic farming, like;
1. SAJIV KHETI (vermicompost/earthworm): One which is done with the help of Worms (Adasiyu)
2. Farming with Cow & Neem: means it uses cow dung, cow urine, cow ghee for every need farming like pesticide, fertilizer etc.
3. Savesanghvi method: Use nothing or low proportion of both above methods and let is be grown in Jungle way, no widding, no water almost, no pesticides, no fertiliser.
4. Vedik Kheti: Which uses sound therapy and some proportion of above methods (vedic chanting, shlokas etc)
5. Homa farming/Agnihotra farming: Farming with reagular homas and havens in farm.
It is proven that whatever method you use, there will be more yield and/or more profit at the end comparing to current fertilizer/chemical based model.
Just think one thing; fertiliser has been invented some 60-70 years back, what Indian farmers do before that. This will automatically give you answer that we earlier used one of above method, but due to desire of more corps and with less hard work we changed our roots to fertiliser and chemical based farming model.
Now to focus on out main goal ORAGANIC AGRICULTURE, please visit first this website. http://www.savesanghavi.com/ These two gentleman named Mr. Save and Mr. Sanghavi are actively in same business for last 20-25 years, and fortunately they are from Gujarat (Umbergaon –near navsari). They have made almost 7-8 farms after success in 1 farm. You can visit the site and find out more how they did that, they have mentioned everything. They have written one book also in gujarati and English for our farmers based on their experiences and techniques, I request you all to buy that and give it to your village relatives who are active in agriculture business.
*I would like to quote one instance from the book………They give the weed (Nindaman) from their farm to one dairyman who has some 20-25 cows & buffalos, this continue to almost 4-5 years and one day they changed their mind and refuse the dairyman to give weed from farm. Surprisingly that dairyman asked them to pay any buck for that weed as his cows and buffalos after eating that weeds for years never got ill and become 2-3 times more productive.*
Second example. This location is near Bangalore and here they have integrated all the things solar energy, wind energy, organic, gobar gas, rainwater harvesting. Just see the results they got, now they are selling their organic items in Bangalore and it is in very much demand.
Third one:This gentleman has done organic farming experience on Tea plantation in Assam . He has converted once loss making estate (because of low fertility) into profit making through organic methods.
Fourth one: Some of you might have heard “Acres Wild Cheese”, it is grown in organic farm run by mansoor khan (director of qyamat se qyamat tak, jane tu jane na, etc). They grow cow and do farming organically and made cheese in natural way from organic techniques. You can visit below links and explore more on the same.
1) Myth: Production will be less in organic farming:
Actual: It is totally depend on which techniques you have used, and if production is less in first phase any reason, it will be definitely increased in next lot. We need to also change accordingly and implement the same with experienced person. Here one have to also look at the point that we are getting high quality, at less prise; so don’t hope for bumper production in first phase, later on it will be there for sure.
2) Myth: Organic products are very costly in market
Actual: Actually in organic farming the production cost is very much low compared to current ones, but some business minded people in the name of quality make it higher prise. We can sell our products at much much lower rates ( I have plans to do the same in future).
3) Myth: It uses worms, I don’t like that.
Actual: There are many more optional methods available in organic farming, like cow dung, cow urine, cow ghee, need etc OR you can use save-sanghavi method.
4) I don’t much about organic farming:
Actual: You can contact near Krishi Kendra or best thing is to visit any of four available Krishi Universities in Gujarat. They will give you all the details. You can also search on internet, there are so many groups, websites, articles which will clear your doubts.
5) There is no big market for Organic Products:
Actual: There is much much big market of organic products nationally and internationally, we need to explore little bit more. You can not only focus on organic farming but also on organic horticulture, organic herbal products, you can also use some by products. Main thing is that there is already market available and if it is not there we can create the market, people will surely come for organic as it not use any pesticide and chemical fertilizer.
Now you will definitely ask, if it is so much useful, high yields, high returns…………….why it is not much popular? So to answer this question let us first make some points clear.
Organic farming is our ancient method, there is no question of something totally new, we just forget the same. It is because of some vested interest of some MNC companies, chemical fertiliser companies and bureaucrats they don’t want this thing to happen or known by everyone. There are number of examples where people got really benefited from organic farming.
There is so many resources available on internet regarding how organic farming alone can solve India’s food problem, also some technical docs which shows how to make panchjanyamrut which may replace pesticides and fertiliser. You won’t believe there is cow dung, cow urine trading going on the net.
Some books and further readings:
* http://www.vedamsbooks.com/no49232.htm —“Panchagavya Boon to Organic Farming” by C Swaminathan; V Swaminathan and K Vijayalakshmi
* http://agritech.tnau.ac.in/org_farm/orgfarm_success%20stories.html —-very good resources, success stories and how to make organic pesticides and fertiliser.
* http://203.129.218.157/ojs/index.php/kjas/article/viewFile/947/904 —some technical detail of panchgavya
* http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=304&page=10 —–very good and latest reading in this field
Author can be reached at Himanshu.acharya@gmail.com
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