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

breaking of the
balance in soil nutrients
is also a serious hazard. Putting in nutritionally un-
balanced food (skin fertilizer) certainly disrupts nutrient balance. That is why
it is very beneficial to use the “whole” plant as fertilizer like in JADAM’s
cover crop method. If you put in rice bran in the soil, the nutritional balance
in the soil changes to a condition more favorable for growing rice. Would you
grow tomatoes in that soil? Same for perilla pulp. If you love this input and
overuse it, you will ruin your soil. Anything good that is excessive becomes
bad. Good and bad are one. Farming is a precision-operation of finding and
approaching the optimized nutritional balance for your crop. When you use
skin fertilizers, use it in less than 1/10 of the total amount.
Base fertilizer is very important in farming; and JADAM suggests you do as
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Let us get rid of compost method!
Prevalent method of compost-making is too complicated. You have to mix the ingredients,calculate green to brown
ratio, build up a pile, adjust the temperature/aeration/moisture, turn them, finish composting by spring and scatter
them on soil. JADAM method is very, very simple. In autumn, mix all ingredients together and scatter them on the
fields, apply JADAM microorganism solution (JMS) and use tiller to break them down.
Compost pile has been made by mixing rice
bran, perilla pulp and other organic matter; put-
ting in microbes; adjusting moisture; and cover-
ing with rice straw. It is a tiring work.
Temperature and moisture differences occur
throughout the pile; some parts harden or form
clods. You have to turn often to prevent this. 
Farmers must complete fermentation so that
compost can be applied in spring. They have to
work hard all winter long. 
When white color appears and no more heat is gener-
ated, the compost is ready. Making this is not easy. 
Turning this pile manually will break your back;
and what do they tell you? The more you turn, the
better.
Excavators are mobilized to do the turning. Organic
farming becomes difficult; cost rises. 
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JADAM Organic Farming 
nature does. Nature always grows vegetation which turn into organic fertilizer.
It is always 100% self-sufficient. e amount of organic matter you can acquire
through cover crop cultivation is enormous. In addition to providing organic
matter, cover crops also soften up the compacted soil layer, reduce salinity and
boost microbial activity which in turn suppresses diseases and nematodes. Legu-
minous crops like hairy vetch and milk vetch even ix nitrogen from the air into
the soil. You might be tempted to buy sacks of livestock manure for ease’s sake,
however, cover crop method is very important in JADAM organic farming. e
Korean Rural Development Ad-
ministration (RDA) has already
done extensive research on cover
crop. Below is information based
on RDA’s research: