Jadam organic Farming & Gardening : The Way to Ultra-Low-Cost Agriculture, Make All-Natural Fertilizer, Pesticide and Microorganism Inputs Yourself

Foreword (original)
When we are sick, we entrust our health, well-being and even life to the
medical experts. Farming has become somewhat similar. Now, farming ne-
cessities, inputs, fertilizer, and pest control all have become the exclusive
domain of so-called experts not farmers. Farmers have become consumers
who buy commodities. e regression of farmers into consumers is the pri-
mary reason behind the rising cost of farming. Higher cost means poorer
farmers; farms are going bankrupt, but nobody seems to be raising social
or political questions. 
Governments are not fully aware of this problem. ey do not understand
that only robust agriculture can support the self-reliance of a nation. Wide
ranging policies of support and subsidy seldom beneit farmers. Money lows
into the pockets of manufacturers, distributors and retailers, not to farmers.
is in turn only deepens farmers’ dependence on outside technology and
worsens their proitability. “Organic farming,” the term fashionably coined
recently, is not something new to the Korean people. However, some claim
that organic farming is something freshly imported from abroad, very so-
phisticated and scientiic; so difficult that no farmer should dare try for
themselves. So-called education, training and exhibitions all contribute to
depriving the conidence away from the farmers. 
Since the founding of our irst kingdom in 2,333 BCE, we have practiced
organic farming for some 4,300 years. Why do we not pay attention to the
traditional organic farming of Asia that has for so long successfully fed the
people in a sustainable way? e word “sustainable” is a fad nowadays, but in
Korea farming has been sustainable for millennia, turning the soil richer and
richer every year. If Koreans had been as exploitive with soil as modern con-
ventional farming, people would have starved to death long time ago. Which
one is more productive? Why do we try to import some advanced Western
organic farming and transplant it into our soil? Any organic farming that re-
lies on buying inputs from the corporate sector will face a rising cost. e re-
sulting expensive products can then only serve the very few wealthy.
Majority of consumers (and farmers) will eventually turn their backs. 
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I am skeptical that our current system of agriculture will have any future
beyond the next ten or twenty years. Organic farming has become too ex-
pensive and if we cannot reverse this trend, organic farming will have no
role in empowering farmers, fostering a healthier way of producing food, or
rehabilitating the environment. JADAM’s utmost priority has been to lower
the cost of organic farming so that it can become viable for everyone. After
decades of research and experiments, JADAM has not just lowered the cost
marginally; instead, we have lowered it radically to an 
ULTRA LOW
level,
hence the name “Ultra-low-cost Agriculture (ULC).” Our production cost
now stands at 100 dollars per acre a year.
is book introduces you to the world of JADAM agriculture. In this
world, the farmers themselves make all the farm inputs they need. I have
explained everything in detail so that the reader can learn how to make
them.