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Bees Farming Everyone knows that Bees play a major role in cross-pollination.  This will, in fact, improve the productivity to a greater extent in varying levels in different crops. An acre of land can accommodate a minimum of 4 Beehives. There are few options with regard to bees.  They are: […]

Gowda started with ZBNF on just an acre of land as an experiment. However, getting rid of any kind of dependence is not easy, and the same is true for soil and plants. His crops did not take well to the home-made fertiliser, and nearly 50 per cent of them […]

Habitat Management helps in maintaining the diversity of the farm.  The habitat thus created will help in the diversity of the farm in terms of trees and further will sustain the different organisms like friendly insects, pest predators, birds, snakes, owls etc.  This in turn will keep the farm in a […]

The model 1 gives us 61 trees (big and small), 92 shrubs /plants with a cereal crop like bajra in the open space in addition to vegetables and pulses that will grow in the trenches, per 36X36 Sq Ft plot. This means we have 33 times the same in 1 […]

General.  Known commonly as gliricidia or madre tree, Gliricidia sepium is well known in plantation agriculture as a shade tree. Therefore, it is also called the Mother of Cocoa. It is a nitrogen-fixing tree that is native to Central and South America. Gliricidia was introduced to Sri Lanka from West […]

RAMACHARITHAM Part 4 പാട്ടുപ്രസ്ഥാനത്തിലെ ഏറെ പ്രാചീനമായ കൃതിയാണ് രാമചരിതം. രാമായണം യുദ്ധകാണ്ഡത്തെ അടിസ്ഥാനമാക്കിയാണ് രാമചരിതം എഴുതിയിട്ടുള്ളത്. കണ്ടെടുക്കപ്പെട്ടതില്‍ മലയാളഭാഷയിലെ ആദ്യത്തെ കൃതിയായി ചിലര്‍ ഇതിനെ കാണുന്നു. Ramacharitham is a collection of poems written at the end of the preliminary stage in Malayalam literature’s evolution. It is the oldest Malayalam book available. The collection has 1,814 poems […]