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

e root cause is in the roots.
Root of peppers are not settling properly into
the soil. In the past, peppers would grow so robust that farmers could not pull
it out with hands; they had to use sickles to chop them down. Now, a small tug
will pull the pepper roots out of the soil right away. 30-40 years ago, pepper
plants used to extend their roots 1.5 m (5 ft) into the soil. 
You can judge the quality of the soil by looking at how the crop roots are
doing in it. In good soil, the root extends wide and deep; this guarantees high
yield and high quality. It is common sense – if roots settle well with increased
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surface area, more water and nutrients become available for the crop. Somehow
in modern agriculture, soil management became a question of “what fertilizer
should I put in?” is view promotes the sales of fertilizers and similar prod-
ucts; but fundamentally soil management is much more than that. 
Only a healthy, sustainable and back-to-the-basics mode of farming that
tends to the roots and the soil can survive the age of climate change. Super-high
temperature and abnormal rainfall are posing signiicant challenges to farming.
Instead of expecting and relying on technological break-through, let us go back
to the basics of farming. Farming starts with soil management. 
If you continue to use factory-
produced livestock manure con-
taining antibiotics, chemical
fertilizer and pesticide, soil con-
tamination will get worse, produc-
tivity will drop and farming will
become increasingly difficult. It
has become a norm to use hor-
mones and antibiotics in raising
animals. Excrements from these
Now most peppers’ roots are coiled up. These roots were desperate to stay in the nursery
soil. Pepper farming has become difficult because of soil degradation. 
Chinese cabbage farming has also become difficult.
The problem is the same. Roots show the same coil-
ing as the pepper.
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animals are turned into manure and supplied to farms. e price is very cheap
because of government support. When antibiotics build up in the soil, they de-
stroy the microorganisms. is leads to further hardening of soil. Any form of
farming should be judged based on its