Zero Budget Natural Farming - Farmers Meeting

It gives me immense pleasure to let the Tamil Nadu farming community know that Shri Subash Palekar will be conducting a conference at Vallam in Tanjore District. The conference will be conducted on 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th of June, 2007. The conference is being organised by "The Director, Centre for Rural Development, Periar Maniammai University, Vallam, Tanjore, Tamil Nadu.

Those farmers who wish to participate in the conference are requested to register themselves with "The Director, Centre for Rural Development, Periar Maniammai University, Vallam, Tanjore, Tamil Nadu". The cost for participation is Rs.300 per person. The payment has to be sent by a demand draft payable at Tanjore. The Demand draft should be in favour of "The Director, Centre for Rural Development, Periar Maniammai University".

Those of you who are interested may kindly rush your registration immediately and make use of this opportunity.

This information is based on my telephone call with the organiser Prof. Muthukumar who can be contacted on his mobile no. 9443160501.

New Year Greetings

WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY AND STIMULATING TAMIL NEW YEAR TIME. TO THOSE OF MY MALAYALEE FRIENDS WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY VISHU KANI.

OUR NEXT POST WILL BE A COST COMPARISON BETWEEN INORGANIC CULTIVATION OF PADDY AND ZERO BUDGET SRI PADDY CULTIVATION.

SRI Paddy Cultivation under Zero Budget Naturalfarmingpalekarway - Some Photographs

At our farm in Kayapakkam, we have cultivated ADT 37 variety of paddy under SRI method. We have not used any inorganic fertilisers or pesticides of any sort. We have followed the techniques being propounded by Shri Subash Palekarji. The paddy plots will be ready for harvest in about two weeks or so. I give you some photographic idea for the farming community in general.

We have applied Jeevamurtham at regular intervals as suggested by Shri Subash Palekar. We had also used Neem Astra to control pests. The incidence of pest attack has been very minimal (as the paddy plants were sturdy due to application of jeevamurtha at regular intervals as well as due to spraying of jeevamurtha solution at regular intervals) and the growth as well as tillering has been profuse.
It is very satisfying to see this paddy field when there is mild sea breeze.

Other farmers had planted the same ADT 37 on traditional method following inorganic farming technique. They faced substantial incidence of infestation of the field and had to use expensive inorganic pesticides, etc., to control infestation.