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

Element
Chemical symbol
Dry-basis 
concentration 
(% or ppm)
Relative atomic 
number to 
molybdenum
Obtained from water
or carbon dioxide
Hydrogen
Carbon
Oxygen
Obtained from soil
Macronutrient
Nitrogen
Potassium
Calcium
Magnesium
Phosphorus
Sulfur
Silicon
Micronutrient
Chlorine
Iron
Boron
Manganese
Natrium
Zinc
Copper
Nickel
Molybdenum
H
C
O
N
K
Ca
Mg
P
S
Si
Cl
Fe
B
Mn
Na
Zn
Cu
Ni
Mo
6
45
45
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.2
0.2
0.1
0.1
100
100
20
50
10
20
6
0.1
0.1
60,000,000
40,000,000
30,000,000
1,000,000
250,000
125,000
80,000
60,000
30,000
30,000
3,000
2,000
2,000
1,000
400
300
100
2
1
Opimum level of elements in plant issue
Source: Epstein 1972, 1990. 
Note: Organic elements (H, C, O) and macronutrients are shown in percent-
age. Micronutrients are in one millionth.
It is nearly impossible to adjust the quantity of individual element to achieve
the optimum nutritional balance for plants. Don’t bother trying to do the impos-
sible. Use crop residues and wild grass as base and additional fertilizer. It is
so much easier, inexpensive and it naturally provides the nutritional balance
the crops need.
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tiic, but such method does not exist in nature. Nature does not grow a
single plant on the entire earth in this method. en why this method?
Why does it exist? It is intimately related to the sales of chemical fertilizer,
NPK mixed fertilizer, customized fertilizer and customized liquid fertil-
izer. Let us be honest; this method is not an honest method. It is not
truthful to farmers. It has only faithfully served as a marketing tool to sell
more chemical fertilizer and pesticide. Farmers complain that pepper
farming is very hard. But let’s look back 40 to 50 years. Most farms har-
vested pepper until frost came in late fall. ey didn’t have any “foliar-ap-
plication-of-Ca-at-late-growth-stage-technology.” ey had neither such
knowledge nor product; nor did they need them. But still, they harvested
much more than modern day farmers. 
I am not saying that anything that is not in nature is wrong. I am not say-
ing that anything modern or Western is wrong. I am talking of the results.
After all that complicated and difficult theories on fertilizer program, did it
The objective of fertilizer program is to provide nutritional balance required by
the crops. Let’s get rid of this complicated practice of dividing plant’s growth
cycle and designing separate fertilizer program for each cycle (above); in-
stead I suggest the use of wild grass and crop residue JADAM liquid fertilizer
as the main additional fertilizer. This GC-JLF has all the nutritional balance
that the plant needs. What easier way to achieve fertility?
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bring high yield and high quality for the farmers? No. It actually hindered
farmers from achieving it. It only made farming more expensive. It ripped off
farmers. It makes farmers more dependent on corporations; takes away farm-
ers’ mastership of technology. JADAM strongly urges to break away from this
method of distinguishing plant growth stages and applying fertilizer accord-
ingly. e answer to perfect fertilizer program lies in nature. Observe nature,
the trees, how they grow. e answer is there. Do as nature does. 
Many farmers now use a lot of rice bran as fertilizer thinking it is a good
organic input. Such fertilizer might be good for growing rice but abusing it
for other crops can actually be harmful. If you apply generous amount of
rice bran for your tomatoes, the soil will change its nutritional balance into
that which is good for growing rice. Another commonly used organic mat-
ter is perilla pulp. It has higher nitrogen than rice bran; so farmers take it
for granted that it is a better fertilizer. But if you use perilla pulp as base
fertilizer repeatedly, you will ruin your strawberries because the soil is more
adjusted to a nutritional balance that is good for growing perilla. Oil cakes
are also widely used. Most commercial oil cakes consist of 50 percent castor
pomace. Again, this means that if you overuse oil cakes, your soil will be
suitable for castor farming. Simply putting in organic matter instead of
chemical fertilizer in the soil does not make you an organic farmer. You
have to be extra careful; be aware that input of organic matter can seriously
disrupt soil nutritional balance. I traveled many places of the world, tasting
organic produce. Surprisingly many of them had inferior taste and quality
compared to conventional produce. is is because the growers failed to
provide the optimum nutritional balance for their crops. If the grower suc-
cessfully applied organic matter that suffices the nutritional balance needs
of the crop, the taste and quality will be extraordinary. Good and bad are
one. Organic matter is deemed “good” but overuse it, then it becomes
“bad.” Attachment to certain organic matter is what makes your farming a
failure. It is common sense. When nutritional balance in my body is bro-
ken, I will fall sick. When you fail to meet the quantity and composition of
nutrients that a plant needs, your crops will soon be diseased.
In essence, what is it that the farmers want to know? e correct
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method of base/additional fertilizer and pest control. Quite simple; and I
will explain it simply. How should you design your fertilizer program? Har-
vesting is taking of fruits or leaves from the crop. If human did not harvest,
then the crop could grow on that soil for generations without having to put
anything in from the outside. e nutrient loop is closed just like nature;
organic matter formed from leaves that fall in autumn and grass that die
down would have sufficed the fertilizer needs of the crop. But the problem
is that purpose of farming itself is to collect fruits or leaves of the plant; it is
to harvest. Every time the farmer harvests, organic and inorganic nutrients
contained in the harvested plant parts escape; they are leached from the
soil. Because human takes out the nutrients, arises the need to replace
All the confusion and complication of fertilizer program becomes easy when
you establish a right view: give plants what is same (or similar) as the plants.
For base fertilizer, use cover crop and crop residue. You can add manure
from animals that ate a lot of grass. Focus on growing a lot of cover crop so
that it alone can suffice as base fertilizer. When you water the plants, put in
additional fertilizer: JMS 500 L or 132 gal + sea water 20 L or 5.3 gal (or sea
salt 500 g or 1.1 lb) + phyllite solution 20 L or 5.3 gal + GC-JLF diluted ×100.
Do this 3-4 times a month. Observe growth and adjust the dilution of GC-JLF.
To accelerate growth, add food waste JLF or urine/feces JLF or fish JLF. 
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them. at is why we need base and additional fertilizers. Climate change
and changed or increased pattern in rainfall accelerates the leaching of nu-
trients from the soil. It makes additional fertilizer all the more important.
You see, farming is critically different to nature; its nutrient loop is open.
ere cannot be zero-input agriculture. 
Fertilizer is to bring back the nutrients taken out of the soil from har-
vest. What you have emptied, you need to ill back in. When illing it back,
you have to ill it up with something similar to the thing that has been
taken out. at is how you provide the optimum nutritional balance for the
crops. is is logical; it makes sense. But farmers blunder right here. ey
bring in all kinds of organic matter that is totally different from the nutri-
ents that have been taken out. Rice bran, perilla pulp, oil cakes and live-
stock manure are their favorites. is popular method of organic fertilizing
completely destroys the soil nutritional balance. Destruction of soil nutri-
tional balance is also soil degradation. e aim of any fertilizer program is
to provide the optimum nutritional balance for the crops. To do so, you
have to give back to the soil what has been taken out. Rather than an indi-
vidualized approach where you have to add or subtract individual nutrients
(buy and apply the individual fertilizer), JADAM suggests that you use
something that already has what the plants need.