We grow pepper. Proper feeding from the first days and the whole season
Sweet pepper is a thermophilic culture and quite demanding. Accordingly, growing seedlings of this vegetable has its own subtleties. Improper soil preparation and seed treatment, errors during picking, watering and top dressing, non-observance of light and temperature conditions can cause weakening of seedlings. In turn, this will sadly affect the harvest. In this article we will tell you how to grow healthy, strong seedlings of peppers, competently solving any problems that arise.
Correctly preparing the soil for seedlings of peppers
Growing seedlings of peppers, like any other culture, begins with the preparation of the soil. Soil structure is very important for pepper. Therefore, if you make the mixture yourself, make sure that the soil is light and loose. When using ready-made soil for pepper seedlings, everything is simpler - a set of necessary trace elements is already there, well, or should be. But the soil of their own preparation must be enriched with useful substances.
The company "Buyskie fertilizers" proposes to use the drug "OMU Rost", a complex organomineral fertilizer in granules, for these purposes. This is a unique long-acting agent, which includes humic acids, macro- and microelements necessary for the good development of seedlings. In addition to the basic NPK elements in a ratio of 7: 7: 8, OMU Rost contains in the required quantities magnesium, sulfur, copper, zinc, iron, manganese and boron.
Unlike conventional mineral fertilizers, the nutrients from which plants absorb only 25-30%, the percentage of assimilation from WMD granules reaches 80-90%. This is due to a unique technology in which the batteries are fixed in an organic granule. As a result, nitrogen and potassium are not washed out by water during irrigation, and phosphorus does not form insoluble compounds in the soil.
The presence of nutrients in a convenient form is not the only plus of the OMU Rost drug. Granules contain special strains of soil bacteria. In the course of their life, bacteria secrete enzymes that break down minerals, making nutrients available to plants.
Thus, due to the presence of beneficial elements, bacteria and humic substances in the composition, OMU Rost improves the soil structure, protects the root system from pathogens, nourishes plants and helps increase yield. Moreover, the harvest - environmentally friendly! The use of the drug significantly reduces the presence of toxins, radionuclides and heavy metals in the fruit, but the content of vitamins, proteins and carbohydrates - increases!
Using WMD Rost is very simple. To enrich the soil for growing pepper seedlings, 1 packet (50 g) of the product is added to 5-7 liters of soil and mixed well. If the drug is used as top dressing, 5-15 g of granules are scattered over the surface of the soil in a container and carefully plowed into the soil by loosening.
Top dressing from the first days to flowering
Growing up, pepper seedlings quickly spend nutrients from the soil, so their supplies must be replenished. At the initial stage, the peppers need in sufficient quantities:
- phosphorus - it is this element that is responsible for the good development of the root system;
- nitrogen - helps to form a strong above-ground part (however, its excess will lead to excessive growth of shoots to the detriment of flowering);
- potassium - increases the number of ovaries and improves fruiting, so this element in large quantities is not needed at the initial stage of seedling development.
The complex mineral fertilizer “Aquarin For Seedlings” in a convenient water-soluble form will provide young peppers with all the necessary substances. A mixture of powder and granules, in addition to the required NPK in an ideal ratio of 13:41:13 for the initial stage, contains iron, zinc, magnesium, boron and a number of other elements necessary for the proper development of seedlings.
A well-balanced composition of "Aquarium for seedlings" will increase the resistance of pepper seedlings to disease, help withstand adverse weather conditions when planting in open ground, improve flowering and fruiting.
Plants most fully absorb microelements in chelated form and chelates are the basis of this fertilizer. Complex organic salts are quickly absorbed by plants and are not fixed in the soil. This property allows you to get a quick visible effect at a reduced dose.
“Aquarium for seedlings” is intended for root and foliar top dressing of seedlings from the initial period to flowering. For watering and spraying, a solution of 10-20 g of the drug per 10 liters of water is prepared on the sheet. Top dressing is carried out every 7-14 days, alternating between watering and spraying. After planting in open ground, top dressing does not stop until the first buds appear. Processing on the street is carried out in the morning or evening hours or in cloudy weather.
Planting pepper seedlings in open ground
Healthy pepper seedlings, grown in accordance with all the rules and not experiencing nutritional deficiencies, as a rule, tolerate planting well in open ground. The further development of plants largely depends on the soil in your beds - how fertile it is.
The company "Buisky fertilizers" recommends planting seedlings of peppers with the use of complex organic-mineral fertilizer "WMD for tomatoes, peppers, eggplant". This is a basic fertilizer of prolonged action, which will provide young plants with all the necessary elements for the entire growing season.
The unique technology for the production of granules and the superproducts of WMD products have been described above. The composition of the "WMD for tomatoes, peppers, eggplant" includes NPK in a proportion of 5: 7: 12, humic compounds and a number of essential trace elements - copper, zinc, iron, magnesium and boron. An optimally selected balance of trace elements, nutrients and bacteria has a beneficial effect on many processes: the growth and resistance of plants to diseases increases, the structure and moisture permeability of the soil improves, and the yield and quality of the fruits increase.
There are several ways to use "WMD for tomatoes, peppers, eggplant":
- Variation when digging the soil before planting seedlings (30 g per 1 m²);
- Local application at planting (20 g per well)
- Plant nutrition followed by watering and loosening 1-3 times with an interval of 20 days (10-30 g per 1 m²)
How to improve the flowering and fruiting of peppers?
Topping seedlings of sweet pepper does not end with planting in the open ground and the beginning of flowering. For high-quality fruiting, plants will need phosphorus and potassium. It is these microelements that are responsible for the normal development of the root system, accelerate the onset of flowering and fruiting, improve the quality and increase the yield, enhance plant immunity and disease resistance.
Growing, pepper seedlings may be deficient in phosphorus and potassium. You can notice this by the leaves: with a lack of phosphorus, the leaves acquire a purple hue, potassium - the color of the leaf plate becomes dark green with a blue tint, and an edge burn may appear on old leaves. In such cases, additional phosphorus-potassium foliar top dressing is performed.
The complex mineral fertilizer "Monopotassium phosphate" is ideally suited for phosphorus-potassium top dressing of pepper in both open and protected ground. As part of the preparation, these important elements are contained in a high concentration of P2O5 - 50% and K2O - 33%. It is possible to apply water-soluble fertilizer for root and foliar top dressing.
The first top dressing is carried out in the phase of 2-3 real leaves, the second 10-15 days after diving or transplanting seedlings in open ground. For feeding seedlings, 7-10 g of the drug is dissolved in 10 liters of water, for feeding adult plants - 15 g per 10 liters.
When using the drug "Monopotassium phosphate" minimizes the risk of burns when spraying on the sheet, so the use of this drug is safe for plants. It is also noted that spraying with this tool helps to get rid of powdery mildew, if applied at the first signs of the disease.
Dear readers! Use at all stages of growing pepper seedlings modern, environmentally friendly and, at the same time, effective preparations from the reliable company "Buisky fertilizers". You can ask any questions regarding the use of drugs on the pages of the company's social networks, as well as in the comments to this article. Healthy and strong seedlings for you!


OK, maybe not today
I've been searching for an answer to our gardening problems. A good fence has helped a lot, but I really think our biggest problem is that this is the desert. Our land is 1 1/3 acres of rocks held together by sagebrush and clay, watered by and "average" of 10" or rain a year ("average" meaning every ten years we get 30"; the rest of the time we get less than 10"). I am beginning to think that every property needs it's own method and you just have to experiment until you find the best for your land.
If I had unlimited money to put into our garden/orchard (both enclosed by the same fence):
- I would build a wall of either straw bales or rock around the perimeter and plant a producing vine of some sort all along it (grapes? berries?) Such a structure is supposed to alter the micro climate for the length of its height x 4 (a 4' wall will reduce wind and our intense sun for 16' inside the garden.) This should drastically reduce the need for watering and the just plain loss from our blow-dryer winds (honestly, in August you can stand out watering the plants and watch them wilt as the wind dries them faster than we can water them).
- I would build better beds throughout the whole area, including one that goes around the whole perimeter.
- I would fill all the beds (new and old) with high quality potting soil. Not the organic way, I know, But it would give us a jumpstart we desperately need.
- I would probably mulch all the planting areas with straw and the paths with pine needles, except the one area with a table and chairs which I would plant in a nice grass. This area also needs more chairs.
- I would install automatic waterers on timers for the whole area, plus add a storage shed.
- I would need some sort of compost scheme. The one that attracts me the most is a run around the garden with chickens in it (which would require us moving the chicken coop). Then garden waste would just be dumped over the main garden fence into the run, kitchen scraps added, and the chickens do the rest. Once a year we rake up all the compost and add it to the garden.
- Lets add miniature greenhouse covers to each bed to extend the growing season (Our last frost is in June, first is in September, and I've seen it snow in July here). I would also make it so these could be covered with screens to keep the sparrows and quail out. The trees need nets over them too, as we are already losing our cherry crop to the sparrows this year and they aren't even ripe yet!
- Pick up some sort of cloth/plastic to toss over the fence to cut the wind down. It would have to be replaced more often, but a wall is out of the question right now.
- Work on the perimeter beds and plant something drought resistant that can cover the fence, even if it doesn't provide food.
- Keep simply adding kitchen scraps directly to the garden beds that don't currently have anything in them and just keep tilling them under. We aren't moving the chickens.
- One small greenhouse over several of the garden beds. Less total space "under roof," but cheaper and easier to manage if I can find a way to keep it from blowing away. This would eliminate pests with 4-6 legs, cut the wind, and maybe retain more of the water. We will have to open up a window in the worst of the summer or the plants inside will cook. So, less space planted, but likely more space successfully growing food.


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The melon, from the Latin cucumis melodrama, is an annual herbaceous plant, native to Intertropical Africa and a member of the Cucurbitaceae family.
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Make your trips a yearly tradition just as so many have done over the past 20 years since we opened. At the White Wing Ranch you’ll be hunting along the banks of the historic Rio Grande River. The hunting lease measures close to 1,200 acres. Just about half is planted with sunflowers, corn, grain and soybeans which acts as a natural magnet for the droves of dove found in our sub-tropical climate. What that leaves you with is 600 acres of prime bird hunting ground ideal for groups and avid hunters.


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Tulsa Public Schools and Sodexo Child Nutrition Services present the Farm to Market event for TPS elementary students. Students will experience different aspects of agriculture and how food gets to our table right here in Oklahoma.
The goal is to increase dairy, fruit and vegetable consumption by introducing farm fresh produce, a milking experience, and education on food's journey from the farm to a market. Students will learn how fruits and vegetables are grown and raised by Oklahoma farmers, how dairy farms work and the nutritional value of the foods.
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The event will take place on Friday, April 14 at the Ross Child Nutrition building, located at 8934 E. Latimer St. from 9:15-10:45 a.m. and 12:15-1:45 p.m. Students will also learn about plant parts and take home a starter vegetable plant in a biodegradable pot from Creekside Plants and Produce.


It is February, I know. But Presidents day is upon us and this is the time of year I like to start putting together my grand plan for my kitchen garden. Squash, peas, carrots, beets, tomatos, and cukeumbers. I like to keep things simple, it may have something to do with the fact that I have three kids.
My mother ignited my love of gardening in me. And I know that I am passing down this love to my children. Growing this love of the earth began when my babies were growing in me. I gardened throughout both of my pregnancies and my gardens were my exersice, and peace when my babies were newborn. Seeding, weeding, and tilling the earth all the while my babies were at arms reach on a blanket under the shade of an umbrella.
Just like mother earth you provide the fertile womb, essential nutrients and warmth. They start as seeds inside us. Sprout and grow. Just like the seeds planted in the ground, you never really know what your crops will turn out like. And you never will know what your baby will grow up to be. Shower them with your love, nourish them with your milk, and be generous with your passions. Let nature run it’s course.


It all began with a dream for Jen Miller and Kevin Dohrmann, who established Miller Dohrmann Farm in Ponca Hills after retiring from the corporate world to embrace a simpler, more fulfilling lifestyle. The married couple, who both grew up on farms in Iowa, started out with 12 acres, later doubling the size of their land. Today, they also rent nearby land bringing them to about 80 acres of farmland in total.
Like both of their grandparents did before them, Miller and Dohrmann use a rototiller, allowing them to use fewer chemicals. They rotate their crops, growing small grains, vegetables, and alfalfa. The alfalfa, which helps rebuild the soil, adds nitrogen, and provides weed control, allowing the ground to rest. The couple also practices regenerative farming, meaning the roots of the alfalfa are deep and perennial, living in the ground and offering bacteria for wheat to take advantage of the following year.
Most days, it’s just Miller and Dohrmann working on the farm—Dohrmann primarily works in the field, while Miller works in the barn. When they are baling, on the other hand, they recruit friends to help with the labor. Last year, the farm was able to produce 2,500 bales of alfalfa. “The hardest part of farming is not knowing what the weather will bring,” Dohrmann said. “But, that is life.”
This year, the farm harvested winter wheat in July, growing a Heritage variety dubbed Turkey Red. The wheat has a desirable flavor, according to the owners, and they often take orders for the whole wheat, as well as local stone ground flour, which is made without bleach or preservatives.
The farm, which also sells certain items online, offers popular products like sweet corn, basil, a variety of vegetables, honey, hominy, dried kernels, and wood products. Miller, who grew up canning alongside her mother, uses her expertise to offer various canned items to consumers, as well. Additionally, the operation grows Oaxacan Green corn, which Miller said makes an excellent masa for customers to enjoy.
Miller Dohrmann Farm supplies to local restaurants including The Boiler Room, Dante, V. Mertz, Au Courant, Casa Bovina, Stirnella, Via Farina, Block 16, and more. The owners embrace the farm-to-table concept and enjoy supporting local. “Eating is such an important part of our lives,” Dohrmann said. “You should eat what you enjoy, including high quality local foods that are really good.”
Traditionally, the farm harvests wheat, straw, and sweet corn in July. Each year, customers are also invited to the farm for a sweet corn feed to enjoy an ear of corn, hop on a trailer ride, and browse other products offered at the farm. Typically, about 400 to 500 people attend the event and roughly 1,000 ears of corn are sold. Any remaining corn is then blanched and frozen to be sold online.
Throughout the fall months, Miller Dohrmann Farm also hosts various pop-up events. In September, the owners invite guests to enjoy an event featuring apple products from the 10 Heritage apple trees on the property. During the day, unpasteurized apple cider is also offered for attendees to taste. In October, a honey and woodworking event is held, followed by a Christmas-themed event in November, in which Dohrmann creates charcuterie boards for guests to purchase.
Happy customers and positive feedback make any hard days on the farm worth it, according to the owners. The two especially enjoy spending their retirement working on the farm together. “We enjoy what we do,” Miller said. “It’s work. It’s 24 /7. It doesn’t always work out the way you want. But, in the end, it’s better than sitting in the office or in a meeting. Working with my husband—and best friend—gives us many more ways to grow together in knowledge and love.”


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After five frenetic days in New York City I confess I was looking forward to slowing down a bit in Milwaukee and catching our breath. Our plan was to visit Sweet Water Organics, an aquaponics operation inside a former factory near downtown Milwaukee. They grow herbs and lettuces in conjunction with perch and tilapia in a closed loop system.
About two hours after touching down in Milwaukee from NYC we rolled up on Sweet Water, an unremarkable looking building with little to reveal what’s inside. But as soon as we walked in I realized this wasn’t going to be a place to chill out. The energy of the people and ideas behind Sweet Water are enough to power New York City. I was tired after five days of very little sleep but Sweet Water quickly recharged my batteries.
What’s makes Sweet Water standout in our story about urban ag is they have found a way to make it pay. Restaurants can’t get enough of their products. They’ve also created a large scale composting operation that is taking spoiled food off the hands of a local grocery store and providing new urban farms with the soil they need to get started. There are also plans to create urban village on the Sweet Water site with housing and an artists’ collective. Beyond the business side of Sweet Water, the Sweet Water Foundation works with kids and the community at large to share knowledge and inspire others to come up with solutions to broken models of industrial food production. The idea is the beneficiaries of this information feed it back to Sweet Water, a reciprocal system that mirrors the closed loop of Sweet Water’s aquaponics operation. So much for slowing down.
The way the folks at Sweet Water Organics see it, if you’re going to reinvent the food system you might as well go big. They’re not just growing vegetables and fish inside an idled factory, they’re creating a new vision for food production, jobs, education, waste reduction, and community development. The excitement they feels is contagious because the Sweet Water business model and nonprofit foundation offer solutions to so many problems: environmentally destructive agriculture, poor quality food, unemployment, and feeding a hungry world with locally grown food. Spend anytime here and you see how dynamic and fertile this place is. Today reps from Mayor Daley’s office in Chicago were here. I met the company’s director of replication who is planning to open the company’s first full scale aquaponics project in West Oakland. The foundation’s director of development says there are plans to create an urban village on site complete with a creative art space and housing. Think of the impact this kind of community based, environmentally minded agriculture could have in needy neighborhoods across America. May one thousand fish and vegetables farms bloom!
Next up: my interview with Will Allen, the guru of urban ag in America.


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Some of the young entrepreneurs ventured into commercial production by availing bank loans.
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The product gets matured in a period of 45-60 days depending upon the type of wastes, earthworm population, and environmental factors. Several decomposable organic wastes normally used as composting materials.
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Leading an extensive farming system or large-scale processing of agricultural produce in the small town of Olla in Ejigbo, Osun State, is an exceptional feat that a handful of those thriving are like pearls on the community’s fabric. Principally, the bigwigs operating on commercial scale are top government officials or professors with investments planned towards postretirement sustainability.
Collectively, the women are notable for their efforts in raising large volume of vegetables that have for years fed Ejigbo, a 6.5 kilometre distance with fairer economy. But individually, they are only a component that functions under men-led subsistence farming framework. Naturally, men are adjudged entitled to farmlands while women’s access is tied to inheritance from husband or family bequeathal.
The trend which has lasted for years makes 58-year-old Juliana Tewogboye stand out as a successful garri processor over the last 18 years. Until two years ago, what could be described as her processing plant regularly received four trucks of cassava at N40,000 each. From that stock came grew a modest source of income for other women employed to peel, blend and fry. A fryer earned N1,000 for churning out 250 kilogramme of garri a day.
Although her husband is a conventional farmer with better access to family lands, she has functioned as the powerhouse of the family, with their current house funded from her business and their children trained to tertiary institutions. Essentially, she is a role model noted for her hard work and resilience despite the exploitations she faces at times from cassava suppliers.
But Tewogboye’s community is not enamoured of her exploits because it is perceived as an overexposure capable of undermining the authority of husbands. The perception is also nurtured by women with the belief they don’t need elevated business as long as daily meals were forthcoming and they could afford pieces of clothes for their wards.
Unlike her, Kemi Sangotokun, a mother of five in her 30s, received N200 from her husband for breakfast on the first Sunday of the year. She was to get a kilogramme of garri and return a balance of N50 on the basis that she could afford to support the home from the little she made from farming.
Her romance with farming and trading was not fancied by her husband but coming up with such support was her way to justify leaving for the farm early in the morning. Depending on the season, she tilled the land for vegetable, picked cashew nuts for sale or bought fruits from palm kernel farms during harvest. However, neither of these farms belongs to her nor can she easily have access even when she can afford.
“In our area here, if a woman wants to rent an apartment, she will first be asked where her husband is. If her husband is dead, they will release the apartment. But if her husband is alive, he has to come with her whether or not they are divorced,” explained Alice Oyesola, a veteran farmer who has spent 40 years farming on her husband’s farmland.
“That’s the situation with just renting an apartment, without even mentioning land ownership. Women can’t buy lands without the approval of men. If they sell to her without a man, there are chances she would be cheated later on,” Oyesola said.
Rural women in agriculture like her constitute over 70 percent of the sector’s labour force, toiling in and out of season, but their efforts are unable translate to higher economic advantage. The cultural limitation that narrows their land access has remained a fundamental factor at widening the gender gap in agriculture and has fostered a stereotype for the nature of agricultural activities women can undertake. Men are five times more likely to own a land than women, according to the British Council of Nigeria. In Olla, for instance, a demarcation already exists. One would mostly find men on their lands cultivating yam, cassava, maize, millet and cocoyam or own cashew plantations while women nurse the vegetables, pick cashew nuts, harvest palm fruits or raise poultry products on rented farmlands.
Owning a land is an incentive for farmers to invest in increasing productivity which in turn boosts their income. Consequently, lack of easy access to land limits their ability to raise productivity and also their chances at securing loans from the formal sector, which requires land as collateral.
A non-governmental and human rights organisation, Women Advocates’ Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC), has been picking holes in how policies fail to protect and support women’s rights across the country but the success rate remains low with most states yet to key into helping women with the law.
Abiola Akiyode-afolabi, the executive director with focus on how empowerment of women in agriculture could be used to address the issue of hunger and poverty, believes the issue of women smallholder farmers is tied to the broader issue of gender inequality and discrimination against women. With the support of a patriarchal cultural norm, rural women have not had their voices amplified in policy issues affecting their lives and are yet to be involved in decisions that affect their livelihoods.
“None of the states have passed the law on land. All we have presently is a bill. In Benue state, they have a draft for gender policies and in Osun state; there is an executive order which the last governor didn’t sign. So we are pushing for this governor to sign it,” she said. “Other states like Ogun and Kaduna have only passed the law on violence against women.”
While land access is a basic is- sue, women also wrestle with other worries from poor access to inputs such as seeds, fertilizer, labour and financial services to training or insurance than men.
Olla women who are yet to make it to the level of Tewogboye’s scale many times find it arduous to get workers in the various stages of processing compared to the rate with which men get labour.
Because she can’t expand her workforce in the processing of cassava for instance, Yemisi Olorode, a single mother of five has to visit the principal at her children’s school at the beginning of the term to appeal for a special period of grace for school fees payment. For her first son in junior secondary school level three (JSS3), she needs to be permitted to pay his N5,000 school fees in three tranches and needs same for the last child whose bill is even only N1,500.
In modern agricultural value chains, growth of contract farming or out-grower schemes for high-value produce through which large-scale agro-processing firms seek to ensure a steady supply of quality produce have increased over time. Such schemes could help small-scale farmers and livestock producers overcome the technical barriers and transaction costs involved in meeting the increasingly stringent demands of urban consumers in domestic and international markets.
Yet, female farmers are largely excluded from the arrangements because they lack secure control over land, family labour and other resources required to guarantee delivery of a reliable flow of produce. While men control the contracts, however, much of the farm work done on contracted plots is performed by women as family labourers. Women work longer hours than men in vegetable contract-farming schemes controlled by male farmers.
Studies found that productivity on women’s farms is significantly lower per hectare compared to men, ranging from 13 to 25 percent but closing the gender gap could increase yields on women-run farms by 20 to 30 percent and could raise total agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5 to 4 percent.
Although a World Bank report established that equal access to resources does not necessarily guarantee equal returns for women farmers, it underscored the need for specialized agricultural training and customized support to ease their double work load as farmers and caregivers.
The right resources, the bank says, could help rural women maximize economic opportunities, increase productivity, improve food security, education and healthcare, since women tend to reinvest in their households.
In some of the strategies designed to address the issue, it proposes that microfinance institutions and other financial service providers with presence in rural areas can play a key role in supporting women farmers. And in terms of linkage with agricultural value chains from processing to marketing, involvement of women can make traditional farming more productive and commercially viable.
The impact of the lack of land access could also be minimised through the deepening of women’s knowledge of farming techniques and technologies which can be adapted to rural women’s needs.
On the broader scale, enabling women farmers is projected to be more productive, benefit Africa’s next generation families in which women influence economic decisions to allocate more income to food, health, education and children’s nutrition. Also, improving gender equality through agriculture could further translate into a generation of Africans who are better fed, better educated and better equipped to make productive contributions to their economies, within agriculture and beyond.
David Tsokar of Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Nigeria said operating environments in agriculture needed to be modelled towards promoting the participation of women and youth, which the organisation was doing in rice seed production.
He said the organisation was also supporting technical assistance to sustainable aquaculture systems for Nigeria which has been developed to help small scale farmers for diversification of livelihoods in rural areas, to improve nutritional status and increase income-generating capacity. “The project is currently being implemented in Ekiti, Osun and Ogun states,” he said.


PTI Govt launches Rs 309.7 billion program to elevate agricultural economy
- The government announced to launch Prime Minister’s National Agriculture Emergency Program worth Rs309.7 billion.
- The program is aimed at boosting yields of major crops and 16 projects in the agriculture sector would be launched under it.
- The previous governments ignored the agriculture sector however, the incumbent govt would establish new agriculture markets.
In a bid to uplift the agricultural economy, the government is going to launch Prime Minister’s National Agriculture Emergency Program worth Rs309.7B.
In order to boost yields of major crops, 16 projects in the agriculture sector would be launched at a cost of Rs309.7 billion under the Prime Minister’s agriculture program.
Four of these projects will be launched at a cost of Rs44.8 billion and would have a provincial share of Rs7.4 billion.
Three projects worth Rs220 billion will focus on conserving and increasing water productivity. Another three projects costing Rs13.9 billion will harness the untapped potential of fisheries.
The Prime Minister’s program will drastically increase agricultural spending over the next five years, by 360%.
The federal government share will be Rs85 billion, the share of provincial governments will be Rs175 billion and the share of farmers will be Rs50 billion.
The government is planning to invest Rs44.8 billion with a federal share of Rs7.4 billion in four livestock projects for small and medium-scale farmers.
At the cost of Rs23.6 billion, two projects will be started without federal share to transform Punjab’s agriculture produce markets. However, Sindh has not responded despite repeated calls by the federal government.
Jehangir Tareen, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader, Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Mehboob Sultan said Prime Minister Imran Khan had taken initiatives to bring improvement in the agriculture sector.
More than 100 meetings were held in major cities across the country to formulate a strategy in consultation with the provinces to implement the emergency program.
Last year, the import bill of Pakistan for major agricultural commodities peaked to $4 billion. The government would spend Rs309 billion under the program to enhance yields. He also invited Sindh to participate in the program for the betterment of the sector.
“The program will get an additional boost of Rs15 to Rs18 billion in agriculture development if Sindh participates,” said Tareen.
PTI leader Jehangir Tareen said that the previous governments had ignored the sector and allocation of funds for agriculture in the last 10 years.
“Total agriculture development spending is decreasing drastically by 60%. Provinces did not play their due role in taking initiatives meant for increasing crop yields,” he added.
The government would increase funds in the next five years for their welfare. The government is also planning to set up five new markets and the existing markets would be upgraded. As the price of sugar has been increased due to the increase in sales tax, the government would also take action against those who are involved in hoarding.


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A new trend of indoor gardening has recently become quite popular. This is because not only can hydroponic gardening be incredibly entertaining and beautiful, it
One of the most surprising thing for people who venture into the fascinating world of hydroponic gardening is how well it works. Even those with the blackest of
The reason that hydroponic gardening has become such a huge trend in our society has a lot to do with the fact that it is hard to find good clean soil to use in gardening.
Why should you eat produce grown in a hydroponics system? What a very good question, with a very long and detailed answer that can follow.
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There was the old shed, her little white house, all of her beautiful flowers, the place where the garden once grew, and no orchard.
Don't get me wrong. It didn't just disappear, it hasn't been there for about half of my life now but in that moment, I missed it and I wanted it there. I wanted to run over and eat too many blackberries straight from the vine. Sneak a bunch of grapes into my palm for later. But most of all, I wanted to see my GranPa standing there with his straw hat explaining to me about his apple tree grafting. Oh, how I would lap up every word if he had been there.
I had to take some classes in June and each one started with the get-to-know-you type questions. One day, we all shared our name and our favorite childhood food. Mine was anything from my GranMa and GranPa's garden. I promise that my GranMa grew and cooked up the best green beans my tongue ever tasted. But another of my most favorite things was anything I could just pick and eat straight from his orchard.
My Dad has a photo in his living room, of GranPa in his straw hat and checkered shirt standing in the orchard and that is how I remember him. How I remember that place. How I see it in my mind's eye.
So, the answer to my question, "Where did the orchard go?"
It is still there for those of us who look hard enough.
I went there just this morning. I bit into a peach, not one of those store bought ones. A real one. A juicy one, grown in a local orchard. The sweet flavor of Summer carried my mind back to a time and place that lives on inside of me. A place where a little curly-headed girl, along with her sister and cousins listen to stories from a man they love, while nibbling on nature's desserts grown in the orchard.


Caterina Roman '22 knows that food has and will always be a necessity. So, it’s important that we protect our planet and respect its resources. Throughout her time at UNH, the soon-to-be-grad has served as a research assistant at multiple farms including Kingman and now Woodman where she manages and heads ongoing experiments for sustainable agriculture. While her time at UNH is coming to an end, Roman is excited to continue her career and see how she can impact the future of sustainable food production in her own way. After all, it’s buzzing with possibilities.


In brief, the roadmap for Agrotechnology and Bioproduct Engineering Research Group moves toward the development of sustainable Bioindustrial Agriculture which begins with the improvement of plant productivity to produce feed, food, biofuel, biochemicals, fiber as well as bioconversion process to produce bioproduct with desired specification.
The establishment of Bioengineering Program in SITH ITB (2010) was the beginning of this research group. Since 2004, the research and development that has been studied is focused on the production of food and non-food (biofuel and fine biochemicals). One of the technologies which has been patented in Indonesia through ITB is “Integrated biodiesel production technology using centrifugal contactor separator” funded by the government of Netherlands. In the future, the research and development will be directed toward upstream processes, which include the development of biofuel feedstock availability (ethanol and lipid) with biorefinery concept.
Agrotechnology and Bioproduct Engineering Research Group released 10 national and international journals in average per year. For its research and development activities, Agrotechnology and Bioproduct Engineering Research Group collaborates among others with the Ministry of Agriculture (Indonesia), Vegetable Research Institute (Indonesia) and Indonesian Institute of Science. Agrotechnology and Bioproduct Engineering Research Group also works closely with several local government in developing bioproducts using a biorefinery concept that includes bioconversion of biological agents such as microorganism, Trigona bees, Black Soldier fly, and cattle that are integrated with agriculture and farming system.
Several collaboration are established in Western Bandung, Sumedang, Lubuk Linggau, Tapanuli, and Center Kalimantan, especially in making primary and secondary metabolites (food, feed, and essential oils), bioconversion on biomass, biofuel, and biochemical in. Apart from research, Agrotechnology and Bioproduct Engineering Research Group also collaborates with local partner initiated by the alumni of Bioenginering at SITH ITB to conduct production trials on nutraceutical to show a strong commitment to support ITB to be a enterpreneurship university.


When I was a little girl growing up in Wantagh, Long Island and elderly couple moved into the house next door. They were originally from Italy and every year Mr. and Mrs. P. grew the most beautiful and robust backyard garden! Everyday they were up with the sun and out in the yard carefully and lovingly tending to the plants they were growing! I remember them having a kitchen outside and Mrs. P. cooking…the delicious aroma would waft over the fence into our yard!
Both yards (theirs and ours) had very tall pine trees and every year the most peculiar plant grew up the pine trees and produced these long, green, baseball bats! They were Cacuzza squash or how I was taught to pronounce it ” Goo-Gootz.”
Cucuzza Squash originated from Italy. An interesting factoid about Cacuzza Squash is that the cucuzza seeds are passed down and have been in the same family for generations!!
Mr. & Mrs. P. gave us one or two “Goo-Gootz” every year and my dad would get down to business preparing it.
Back then we ate this dish over pasta BUT now I won’t and don’t!
A few weeks ago I took two of my children to the local Farmer’s Market and low and behold, there were a few “Goo Gootz” sitting there! It flooded me with memories of days gone by… that paired with the amazement in my boys eyes did me in. I bought it and off I went…back home to prepare it!
Needless to say it was a big hit with the family. So, I would like to share the recipe with you!
1 cucuzza squash (psst…any variety of squash can be used)
1 Spanish onion, sliced lengthwise
6 cloves garlic, smashed
1 can Trader Joe’s Fire Roasted Chopped Tomatoes with Chiles (don’t stress if you do not have a Trader Joe’s near you…substitute this for 1 can of chopped tomatoes and a few tablespoons chopped chiles; both are available at supermarkets)
½ cup chicken stock (I use organic and low sodium)
salt and fresh pepper
- Peel approximately 2 pounds of Cucuzza squash and dice into 1/2 inch cubes. Discard large seeds.
- In oiled skillet, combine onions and garlic, sauté approximately 2 minutes.
- Add can of tomatoes and chicken stock and mix together.
- Add Cucuzza squash and cook on a low to medium heat until tender approximately 30 – 45 min. Stir occasionally.
- Season to taste.
Serve plain or over spaghetti shaped shirataki noodles.
It’s a great side dish to meat too!
Other ways to prepare Cucuzza Squash
Peel squash and cut into French fry potato shapes.
Dip into mixture of beaten egg and then dredge in Breadcrumbs.
Fry until golden brown, being careful not to over cook.


By Stephanie Basima Terry
Last week, in the midst of work obligations, family life, and a bad case of hives from an allergic reaction to pet dander, I had an epiphany in the middle of our weekly Zoom meeting of black entrepreneurs. As I was listening to each of us share about our plans, challenges and reflections, I realized that in a sense entrepreneurs are like farmers.
If you have ever spent time on a farm with a farmer, you know that despite how picturesque the farm is, how cute the farm animals are, and how fresh and ripe the produce is, the daily life of a farmer is a lot of hard work, uncertainty and learning on your feet.
The life of an entrepreneur is not always fun and glamorous either. Like a farmer, it can mean working lots of long hours and days filled with uncertainty, where you frequently find yourself making adjustments to plans, and learning from mistakes.
Farmers plant rows of different sized seeds and plants, watering, mulching, and weeding, then waiting on the sun and the rain and the science that happens in the dirt to do its thing - while eagerly anticipating those first signs of life. Entrepreneurs in a sense do the same things, creatively thinking and taking the seeds of ideas to share and plant in others’ minds, nurturing and watering those ideas with meetings and consultations, building teams that act on those ideas that then turn those ideas into products and services that people can use. Waiting for those magical moments when the idea becomes the thing itself.
I realized in our meeting, that we were doing all the things farmers do to bear a successful crop. Including arising before the sun rises in the morning to work on our projects, making time during the day between our day jobs to make a sale, and waking in the middle of the night, thinking about how to improve our latest plans.
Business ideas take time...like seeds, they don’t grow overnight. When a farmer plants a seed, he knows he has to cultivate that seed by providing it with the right environment and water and allowing the sunshine and the earth to do the rest. The Farmer puts energy into the seeds and protects the seeds by removing the weeds around them. It is important to note that he/she does not water and feed the weeds or allow the weeds to grow in the garden.
Likewise in our efforts as Entrepreneurs with businesses (gardens), we do the things to ensure a successful product/service and remove the weeds (any negativity.. internal thoughts-emotions and external challenges, and unnecessary activities/thoughts that don’t support our goals.
So the next time you awaken in the middle of the night thinking about your latest business project, or wake up in the wee hours of the morning to mix up products to sell, remember this little analogy about a farmer in a field of dreams.
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Golf Course Summer Update
As we head further into the summer months, we are keeping our fingers crossed that we get some spells of good weather.
Our seasonal greenkeeping team have started for the season ahead and they are working on divoting the fairways and we are seeing the results already. We continue to top-dress the greens on a ten-day basis as this helps with keeping the greens firm.
We recently undertook a test area on the 12th fairway where we stripped off the top layer of the turf down to the drainage gravel bands, re-sanded it and seeded it with fine leaf grasses that need less water to perform. We have also introduced tighter playing surfaces around the greens to add shot choice and value to the course.
Our landscaping plan is in full swing with an addition of an L bed behind the 18th green and the carpark and lodge are receiving a facelift with new beds, flowers and shrubbery all being added.
There is plenty of TLC ongoing at Luttrellstown and make sure to keep an eye on social media and the website for further Golf Course, Clubhouse and Castle updates.


The water is circulating, and Spence has added ammonia and is letting the biofilter develop before adding the fish.
All of this means that after the planning and building phases, Spence and his friends at Green-Trust have now actually embarked on the new indoor/outdoor solar-powered aquaponics self-sufficiency survival food project.
The project includes a fish and vegetable production system, but also an optional solar power system, LED grow lights, possibly a do-it-yourself (DIY) greenhouse, and a methane digestion system for hot water and winter heating of the greenhouse. The fish will be fed by a grub composter. Spence is ordering the fish tomorrow.
The fish will be bluegill and catfish, as well as other varieties which are being investigated. The vegetables that will be planted have been picked for nutrition, hardiness, and ease of growing, mostly water plants in addition to traditional plants.
Green-Trust’s first kit is now available. It is a 2.5′ siphon, ready for installation in a 55-gallon plastic drum. It consists of a bulkhead fitting, a 30″ x 2″ vertical standpipe, a 30″ x 4″ vertical bell pipe with drilled cap, and a 28″ x 1/2″ snorkel pipe with fittings, all drilled and cut. Simple assembly is required. The cost is $60 plus shipping & handling, and includes complete system documentation on CD. The documentation CD without the siphon is $40.
You can order the kit, or get more information at http://www.green-trust.org/wordpress/aquaponics-project.


Setting on the seat of the John Deere 4360 tractor with the corn trailer in tow I had to be smiling from ear to ear. Coming from Denver to Tekamah, a Nebraska farming community, for the corn harvest was, at least to me, a fun way to spend a week’s vacation. Keep in mind, there is a difference between ‘play’ farming for a week and making it a way of life. As a farmer, I most certainly would starve.
Setting on the tractor, I was thinking of Cliff, who has been a farmer most, if not all his life. I was appreciative of the fact that he agreed to let me ‘help’ with the harvest. While I ran the tractor, Cliff was running the semi-truck and auger feeding the corn into the bins. Clark, Cliff’s brother, was running the combine.
It sounded easy enough and, for the most part, it was. All I had to do was drive the tractor with the corn trailer next to the combine and Clark would fill it. When the corn trailer was full, I was to dump it in the semi-truck. Nobody said anything but I knew I was slowing things down. Several times Clark had to wait at the combine for the corn trailer to get back and Cliff kept a keen eye on the semi-truck when I approached. Both of them were easy going and patient with the ‘city guy’.
After unloading a trailer full of corn, I decided the semi-truck was to close for me to back up. Pulling ahead, I saw an opening just past the barn with plenty of room to turn around. Heading back to the combine, I spotted Cliff in the mirror. Cliff walked up behind the corn trailer, stopped, bent down, and then just turned around and slowly headed back to the auger. “Is everything okay?” I yelled. “Yeah, it’s fine. Say, where did you turn around?” he asked holding a strand of wire in his hand. I told him. Cliff nodded and said I had just driven through an electrical fence.
With a little embellishment, the story made the rounds. Cliff gave me the nickname, Hotwire. Clark said in Tekamah that might make me a legend. A city guy, a tractor, and an electrical fence
I can live with the nickname, but I am not sure about that legend thing.


With world population forecasted to reach nine billion people during this century, the question of how all these people will have the necessary resources to survive, like water and food, has been raised many times. A large quantity of freshwater is stored in the polar icecaps and so not available for consumption (with global warming on the way these have already started to melt away into the ocean). Generally, the freshwater we use comes from aquifers that are replenished by precipitation. However, due to natural factors like prolonged drought or floods or to human-related factors such as overuse for industrial purposes or groundwater contamination, important quantities of freshwater are lost. Thus, water resources are not always available where they are needed, causing some societies to become water stressed. In many countries the sustainable water use is already threatened, despite predictions that in the future water use is expected to increase. When it comes to food production agriculture has certainly come a long way and has continuously managed to provide an increased production. Some of the reasons behind this are improved mechanization, increased use of fertilizer, herbicides, dwarf crop varieties, drought resistant crops, development of genetically modified crops, etc. Actually, in most countries agriculture is the largest single user of freshwater. In developed countries residential water use is relatively minor compared with the amounts used for agriculture. Moreover, apart from the water we consume for our daily needs, we also use water indirectly through the products we buy, which also necessitated water for their production. Thus, our water footprint is much larger than we think, due to all the externalities that we do not take into account. So it is clear that in order to meet the needs of future, more numerous generations, something needs to be changed in the way we produce food and utilise water resources. With climate change as an aggravating factor, solutions should be found as soon as possible. One of the proposed alternatives is the adoption of permaculture. A quick look on Wikipedia will show us that this is not even a new, revolutionary concept. Permaculture is a branch of ecological design, ecological engineering, and environmental design which develops sustainable architecture / human settlements and self-maintained agricultural systems modelled from natural ecosystems. Permaculture draws from several disciplines including organic farming, agroforestry, integrated farming, sustainable development, and applied ecology to create systems that make the most of the natural ecosystems’ capacity to regulate life-supporting processes, while at the same time providing benefits for people. The core tenets of permaculture are:
- Take Care of the Earth: Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply. Without a healthy earth, humans cannot flourish.
- Take Care of the People: Provision for people to access those resources necessary for their existence.
- Share the Surplus: Healthy natural systems use outputs from each element to nourish others. We humans can do the same. By governing our own needs, we can set resources aside to further the above principles.


In this team-led project management experience, teams start at a local Nourish partner farm where they learn about sustainable agriculture while harvesting vegetables for the evening’s dinner. Next the team follows their Nourish tour guide to a local shelter where, with the help of a volunteer chef, a dinner is prepared and shared with the homeless. This program can be tailored to your needs as either a full day or half day experience. The full day option is done in partnership with the Experiential Learning Center in Kohler, WI.
Start on a local Nourish partner farm at noon, where your team will learn about sustainable agriculture, and help with light farm work and harvesting vegetables for the afternoon snack for the school kids. After the farm you follow your Nourish Tour Guide to the elementary school, where the team prepares the snack and develops a few fun facts about the vegetables to share with the kids as they enjoy their healthy snack. Program finishes by 4PM.To schedule a tour or discuss options for your team please contact firstname.lastname@example.org
A unique hands-on volunteer afternoon where you'll learn about sustainable farming practices, harvest local produce and prepare and share meals.
The Healthy Summer Lunch and Snack Attack programs give kids a chance to try fresh, local produce.
Spend a morning at the Farmer’s Market handing out samples of delicious recipes made by a local restaurant.
Teams learn about sustainable agriculture while harvesting vegetables for the evening's dinner.


Learn how to make Organic Plant Fertilizer from recycled materials that are easily found in almost any home. A fun project for the family and any homeschool classroom!
You can find complete instructions for this awesome project by following this link:
|Make Your Own Organic Plant Fertilizer for FREE When thinking about plant fertilizer it is of course important to understand what a plant needs in order to survive and thrive….|
|Source: Instructables.com – TheHomeschoolHouse|
This project will fit in perfectly with:
- Science – discussing seed germination, photosynthesis, soils, and decomposition
- Earth Day (April 22) – discussing recycling and solar power
Age Range: All Ages


Nigella Sativa, commonly known as Black Seed and Kalonji/Black Cumin/Black Caraway in other regions is naturally produced by a small plant with pale purple, blue, or white flowers and grows in Eastern Europe, Western Asia, and the Middle East. It is a powerhouse of antioxidants and rich in vitamins and minerals.
Black Seed Oil contains significant proportions of:
Amino Acids – 15 Amino acids including eight of the nine essential ones
Vitamins – Vitamin B1, B2 and B3
Essential Fatty Acids – including omega 6 and omega 3
Volatile oils – such as Nigellone and Thymoquinone
Alkaloids – two different types of alkaloids isoquinoline alkaloids and pyrazol alkaloids
Minerals– such as calcium, iron, sodium, potassium, vitamin A, magnesium, zinc and selenium.
In the Islamic tradition, Black Seed is glorified as ‘al Habbat al Barakah’ – the blessed seed – with the term “Al Barakah” signifying its “blessed” status. Its widespread usage is primarily due to the authentic Prophetic statement recorded by the renowned scholar al-Bukhari that “the Black Seed is a cure for all illnesses except death”.
With black seed oil widely and cheaply available on the market we were extremely disappointed to find many of those purported ‘pure’ oils were of cheap and compromised quality and we were requested by our near and dear to produce pure uncompromised black seed oil.
With years of experience in crafting some of the highest quality essential oils from fragrant plants and woods alike we know well what a premium Oil looks, feels, tastes and of course smells like.
After 12 months of extensive research into every aspect of this astounding seed, from plant genetics, climate conditions to its phytoelements we embarked upon the fascinating journey of pressing the highest quality Oil from seed. We spared no effort to acquire the best hardware available in the market to supplement our artisanal effort for the task at hand and we reached out far and wide; Italy, UK, Sweden, and even locally here in Australia. After months of collaboration, discussions, design, and redesign across different time zones and continents we finally developed the pressing system and method that was going to yield premium quality Cold-Pressed Black Seed Oil. It was finally time to bring all the pieces back to Australia and begin the wonderful journey of pressing these ‘blessed’ seeds.
Hand-fed and pressed in small batches to ensure every batch is pressed just in time for shipping giving you premium freshly pressed oil with a maximum shelf life. Pressed at slow speed, water-cooled, hand collected, meticulously settled and bottled with care. We selected amber glass bottles to protect the oils from the harmful effects of UV rays, leaching or element contamination as can happen with metals and plastics bottles.
Cold-pressed to ensure none of the temperature-sensitive essential elements are destroyed and that the most amount of goodness is extracted from the seed into the oil. With our 100% pure premium quality cold-pressed Black Seed oil you have full peace of mind that our oils have been pressed in-house, on-site at Al Shareef with complete devotion, love and dedication.
No short cuts, no additives, no stretching, and no contracting to third party presses.
Established both historically and religiously, black seed is a diversely beneficial herb with wide ranging benefits. For over three thousand years, people have used it to cure numerous ailments and to maintain and improve general health. The earliest usage of Black Seed is traced back to the Assyrians in ancient Egypt where black seed oil was applied externally to nourish the skin and used as a digestive aid. Treasured as an essential of daily Egyptian life they acknowledged the benefits of Nigella Sativa and described it as a panacea (cure for problems and diseases) – Tutankhamun even had a bottle of the oil in his tomb! The Romans also knew this seed and called it ’Greek Coriander’ and used it as a dietary supplement.
People have used the tiny ‘black seeds’ of Nigella Sativa for thousands of years in cooking, baking, and even beverages. In biblical times, Black Seed was used to spice bread and cakes, and throughout the Middle East, Asia, and Europe baked goods were spiced with Black Seeds in combination with cumin or coriander and used to flavor curries and pickles.
High quality black seed oil can also be ingested in liquid form, applied topically to benefit the skin and is often used in massage oils, shampoos, homemade skin-care products, and fragrances.


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We make sure that all our sod installations are cost-effective, all while providing the necessities of flood prevention and erosion control.
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Over time, it is natural for sod lawns to become weathered, damaged, or dry. The process of re-sodding your lawn is a quick and efficient way to fix this issue. The old sod is removed and the area is re-soiled. Then, a fresh piece of sod is planted in the space. If you have had a sod installation in the past, re-sodding is the first step to getting your lawn back to looking clean and fresh.
Our lawn care crews are ready to help you with any of your re-sodding needs. Contact us today to see how we can help you.
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If there’s one thing I absolutely love about summer, it’s homegrown tomatoes from my garden. This year I decided to grow heirloom tomatoes for the first time, and I’m so glad I did…especially since restauranteur, Chopped judge and renowned celebrity chef Scott Conant made an amazing one-pot penne pasta with fresh mozzarella, heirloom tomatoes and basil on the Today show this morning! Doesn’t that pasta dish sound delicious? I can’t wait to prepare it for dinner tonight.
During the Today show video segment below, chef Scott Conant showed Al Roker and Natalie Morales how to chop the heirloom tomatoes, asparagus, peas, zucchini, corn, prepare the pasta, add the oregano, olive oil, fresh mozzarella and goat cheese for his fabulous one-pot penne pasta with fresh mozzarella, heirloom tomatoes and basil.
Video: Watch renowned chef Scott Conant show Al Roker, Natalie Morales (and all of us!) how to make his one-pot penne pasta with fresh mozzarella, heirloom tomatoes and basil on the Today show on Monday, June 22nd. It’s the perfect dish for summer, especially on Meatless Monday. Don’t forget to head over to Today.com for this fabulous recipe!


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Neutralising Value: 96%. Particle Size: 98% finer than 250 Micron. MDL Aglime is the finest Agricultural Lime available, which gives more surface area and immediate response in the first year. Comparison. You can compare the value of different liming materials and products using the NV, fineness and cost of the lime..
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A centre of excellence and manufacturing facility for farm machinery will be set up in Telangana by Tirth Agro Technology Pvt Ltd (Shaktiman).
Tirth has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Telangana government in this regard.
In a statement, Telangana Industries Minister KT Rama Rao said that it has been the government’s priority to encourage local manufacturing and promised all support to Shaktiman.
The centre of excellence and the manufacturing facility would come up on a 200 acre site. The machinery will include rotary tillers, power harrows, mechanical seed drills, compost shredders, flail mowers etc.
It will also set up field demonstration plots, horticulture plots and water harvesting plots.


It was late afternoon when a loud crack and thundering crash came from the food forest. After the hottest, driest summer on record, February ended with a nice drop rain, 45mm, from the peripheral edge of Cyclone Oma. It also brought fierce gusty winds. The winds proved too much for the magnificent Mexican fern tree, the crowning canopy of my subtropical food forest.
From a seedling planted 25 years ago, this tree grew into a 30m high giant with a massive umbrella-shaped canopy towering over the fruit trees and smaller legume trees. Its primary function was to support a frost-free microclimate for the frost-sensitive tropical and subtropical fruits.
We were fortunate that it fell where it did and there was no major damage other than a few damaged limbs of valuable fruit trees – nothing a bit of pruning won’t fix.
The vertical root ball of the fallen tree stood 2.5 meters high and nearly five meters long. I was disappointed to see it had taken down a beautiful 25 year-old plum pine that had its roots intertwined with the fern tree.
At the end of the clean up, with an encouraging push the last 2 meters of trunk stood back up erect and the root mass nestled back into the ground. The plum pine stood back up with it, albeit now with a bit of a lean, however we are confident it will survive.
The branches and canopy yielded nearly 10 cubic meters of woodchip mulch. The 60cm wide trunk has been sawn into one meter lengths and will be moved to different spots in the food forest to feed the fungi, the decomposers and provide slow-release nutrients to surrounding trees. The timber is not suitable for building or durable items.
I thank this giant tree-being for 25 years of providing a microclimate for the food forest, for sequestering many tonnes of carbon, for providing habitat, cycling nutrients and in the end for a bounty of fresh biomass to mulch and support other plants. I’m also very grateful it fell where it did with minimal damage and where it was easily accessed to clean up.