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

4. Ambient temperature
In workshops, you will often hear about what temperature is optimum for
liquid fertilizer and what is optimum for microorganisms. is sounds quite
simple so you go home and try to get the right temperature but the process
turns out not easy at all. First, you try a sheath heater to warm up the liquid.
But then you are told that sheath heaters cannot heat evenly so you need an agi-
tator. You are also told that you need a heat insulating container to keep the
temperature stable. You are also told that it is good to provide air and light. In
the end, you buy machines that help you meet these conditions. ese ma-
chines were a few hundred dollars in the past but now range from a thousand to
a few hundred thousand dollars. All the rubber containers that you had at home
have become useless because they cannot “keep the temperature even.” Farmers
are driven to a situation where they have to keep buying new products. ey
have to buy devices to maintain the temperature, provide air, provide light, ac-
celerate the decomposition, etc.
Machine manufacturers, their agents and experts all unequivocally claim
that you have to meet certain conditions including temperature, aeration, light,
pH and fermentation speed. All the knowledge surrounding farmers indirectly
force them to buy machines. Agents are bold enough to win government sub-
sidy. ey make it convenient for farmers; farmers need only pay 30% then the
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government will provide the rest. Rich farmers buy machines, less well-off farm-
ers buy end-products. Government ends up spending millions of dollars to re-
vive agriculture, but money has never lown into the pockets of the farmers.
But is keeping an even temperature really important in making farming
inputs? How did we do it in the past when we had no electricity and no
heaters? How did we produce liquid fertilizers and cultivate microorganisms
back then? What about nature? What did she do before humans? How did
nature cultivate microorganisms and produce plant nutrients without heat-
ing? Now, you may start to think that something is not right. All these years,
our ancestors and Mother Nature herself farmed without any artificial heat-
ing. Will a disaster occur if you start ignoring the “temperature condition”?
What if you just give up all artificial heating and leave everything to nature?
Is there some other secret to temperature? Or will your liquid fertilizer and
microorganism culture turn out just fine?
Let’s shift our view. We have been thinking that artiicial heating helps
speed up the process, improves quality and make things convenient for us. But
is artiicial heating actually helpful in providing