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method in JADAM to make liquid fertilizer from fruits, leaves and
branches of the crop (crop residues). Add some wild grass you ind around
your ield; they are the same “plant” as your crops and make excellent fertil-
izer. What’s even better, they are free! Well known
organic fertilizers such as
rice bran, perilla pulp and oil cake are all nutritionally unbalanced.
All experts say that N, P, K, Ca, Mg, B, etc. are essential for crop
growth. e solution they present is that you approach each nutrient sepa-
rately; adjust each and every one of them to prepare the optimum balance
of nutrients. Such approach is very complicated and nearly impossible for
farmers to practice. It deprives the farmers of conidence in fertilizer. at
is how fertilizer manufacturers and their agents take over. Fertilizer be-
comes something that only
the trained professionals know; farmers accept
it as a rule to buy fertilizer from the dealers. If you follow the logic pre-
sented by these experts, providing nutrients for plants cannot be more diffi-
cult. I wish to present a very, very simple method. Just use liquid fertilizer
out of crop residues and wild grass. ese materials have all the perfect bal-
ance of N, P, K, Ca, Mg, B, etc. that the crops need.
It is such an easy and
inexpensive method that anybody can practice; but we have wandered so
far. Do not try to analyze the fertilizer in NPK instead, think of it this way:
“things similar to my crops are good food for my crops.” Use what is simi-
lar to the crops as base and additional fertilizers. Use crop residues and wild
grass; this is an easy way to prepare the optimum balance of nutrients for
your crops. Break the nutritional balance and you will have disease. So this
problem of nutritional balance is the most important in farming. And the
solution lies everywhere around you. Use cover crops
for base fertilizer and
use crop residues and wild grass liquid fertilizer as additional fertilizer. is
makes farming so much easier.
C/N ratio is another theory that makes things complicated. is theory
goes on to say that if the ingredient lacks N, then you need to supplement
N for microbial growth. is is partially true, however, you can ignore this
and still make fertilizer. It just takes longer. is C/N theory cannot ex-
plain how everything in nature is recycled. Another
complicated theory is
pH which says that too strong an acid is bad for the crops so you need to
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adjust it in advance. You need to measure the amount of lime to adjust the
pH; this is another cumbersome work. In JADAM, pH is not a big prob-
lem because JADAM does not use sugar or molasses. e analysis of
JADAM inputs shows that they are mostly around pH 7. Using water and
leaf mold solves this issue. Another evil theory
is that no-fully-fermented
liquid fertilizer will do harm to crops. It is confusing because farmers are
not sure at which stage it is “fully fermented.” JADAM has a straight-for-
ward answer: you can use JADAM liquid fertilizer at any stage. You need
only to dilute it above ×30. JLF is similar to soy sauce; the longer it ages
the better. More aged liquid fertilizers will be more easily absorbed. Stan-
dard is ×100 dilution. Calculate the volume of liquid fertilizer based on 1 t
(264 gal) of water being used for 0.03 ha (0.08 ac). Try ×100 dilution irst
and see how it is; if too strong
add less liquid fertilizer, if too weak add
more. Our ancestor farmers used very strong liquid fertilizers (such as
human manure) straight on the soil. It was diluted about 5-10 times.
Do not use black sugar or molasses.
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