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I am not a farmer...yet. But have read about coconut yield improvements One is about 90 year old Bhaskar Save. Trench & Platform irrigation is his mantra. One good article about his method is [Water efficient Farming Second is about using coir pith as mulch. Please contact...

drsreddy Based on your post as below, a year or so ago... I am looking for land at a much cheaper rate, around that same area...not more than 2 hrs drive from yelahanka. Are there degraded land available at 30-40,000...which can be revived over a period of time ? Tried giving you a...

Can I get 10 to 40 acres of degraded land in a 60 km radius from Yelahanka, Bangalore ? Uradgere - Gauribidanur - Bagepalli - Vemgal seems to be the arc from North West to North East of Yelahanka. The purpose is to nurse it back into a viable agricultural land.

Aromedindia The intention of my post/query was to elicit opinions about how crop planning is done on a piece of land for a particular water budget available. I was curious to know whether water availability/ budgeting is done before crops are chosen. Sustainable farming ultimately has to be...

Interesting info from Kirti & Naidu. Thanks. Naidu: I have sent the PDF on this irrigation method to your gmail id. If you search for "Bhaskar Save", or go to Uebimiau Webmail - Login, you will get the same info. please contact....

On an average, 50 views of a post elicits one reply. I guess i chose the wrong forum for this post....or maybe this is a subject on which very few would have experimented and have opinions on

Neem too seems to be used for this. I have heard of a large project somewhere in Madurai. They have a power plant in MW range. If water is not a constraint, bamboo seems another candidate, as said by Growmore Biotech. They have a variety called BHEEM, samples of which I saw. It seems to be a...

I take an acre to be about 4000 sq.metres. 1 mm of rainfall on this equals 4000 litres of water...4KL. If I take Anantapur in AP as an example, with its annual rainfall of 400 to 700mm of rain, I get an average of 1 to 2 mm of rainfall per day. Taking 1.5mm as the average, my water usage per...

This is a method being followed by Bhaskar Save near Umbergaon, for the last 50 years, where he irrigates an acre by pushing water into the trenches only. And the trenches are positioned at the tip of the canopy of the plant, thus forcing the roots to grow towards water. He refuses to water...