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

nutritional per-
spective
, these are doing more harm than good since light, air and heat are the
three biggest destroyers of nutrients.
Real organic farming inputs are simple and meant to be simple. e process
became complicated because “experts” brought in the requirements of air, tem-
perature, uniformity, agitation, time and smell. ey made conditions which
neither existed nor mattered before. As more conditions and requirements were
declared as “scientiically proven,” 
farming became more complicated and
farmers became less conident
. Farmers, after being brainwashed by the so-
called experts and having been deprived of conidence, end up buying expensive
machineries. ose that do not have the money to buy machines will buy end-
products from input agents. 
e anaerobic process is the way to go. Bring the methods closer to anaero-
bic. Look and judge organic farming inputs with a 
nutritional perspective
.
Minimizing nutritional loss is the goal: light and air should be tightly blocked
out. is holds true not only for liquid fertilizers but also for solid ones as
well. A factory that treats a large amount of livestock manure containing a lot
of nitrogen might have to use aerobic fermentation to get rid of the smell.
However, if you are producing fertilizer from livestock manure on a small
scale, you do not need to turn often. at you have to turn is a misperception.
Look at solid fertilizers from the nutritional perspective also. is may at irst
seem very confusing. You will not understand that you can make compost
without turning. You turn compost to provide oxygen and prevent overheat-
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Principles of Making Organic Farming Inputs 
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ing. e more you turn, the more nutrients you will lose. Keep the compost
pile small – pile up to a 1 m (3.3 ft) width and 1 m (3.3 ft) height so as to pre-
vent nutrient loss from overheating. Let the compost stand and when the heat-
ing period passes the work is done. 
ere is an easier way of using a gunnysack. Put a pallet on the ground. Pre-
pare gunnysacks and ill them with wild grass, leaves and sawdust as the main
ingredients; add food waste, livestock manure, ish waste, etc. Pile up the gun-
nysacks in about six layers on the pallet. Apply a generous amount of JMS to
the sacks as you pile them up. Next, wrap them tightly with a plastic sheet. Use
the contents after three months. It is easy to make and easy to use. Moisture
content and uniform moisture are keys to fermentation. After you apply gener-
ous amount of JMS, excess water will drain from the bottom resulting in an op-
timum moisture level. Because it is covered with a plastic sheet the moisture
level will be uniform throughout and the ingredients will not lump together.
JADAM calls this the “gunnysack fermentation” method.
There are theories about carbon to nitrogen (C/N) ratio claiming that ni-
trogen-rich materials have to be added if the ratio is too high and vice versa,
and that that is important for faster fermentation. There are also theories
about acidity: how you have to add lime to control the pH. Well, guess what,
even if you disregard these theories, the process will work just fine. Without
human helping hand, nature does a fine job. These theories of C/N ratio and
acidity fail to explain Mother Nature’s cycling of materials, a work of perfec-
tion. Just like we select and eat food following our intuition, we should do
the same in making compost.
What about the leaf mold in the mountains? Are they undergoing aerobic
or anaerobic fermentation? e surface is exposed to air but the inside is under-
going an anaerobic transformation. From the surface down into the deep soil,
anaerobic activity is taking place. Let us not look at anaerobic fermentation
with too much prejudice and suspicion. Photosynthetic bacteria, lactobacillus
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and yeast are names for some of the best-known beneicial microorganisms; and
they are all anaerobic. How can you tout these anaerobic microbes as beneicial
on the one hand and on the other hand condemn anaerobic fermentation? We
make farming inputs so that they provide nutrients for the crops. e nutri-
tional aspect is the most important criterion in making the inputs. Remember
that keeping them an-aerobic minimizes nutrition loss. I read many foreign
books but they simply presuppose the use of air pumps when making liquid fer-
tilizer. “Compost tea” is popular which most of the time is made using an air
pump. We should assess this from a nutritional perspective. Not all that is for-
eign glitters. Our traditional organic farming has been lost while we were busy
pursuing highly-lawed, foreign knowledge. 
ose who teach complicated theories might be the people most ignorant.
ose who know no other way than to speak of truth in a difficult way might
not know the truth at all. e truth about the truth is that it is like water; it
lows along the way. Without complicated theories these truths can low into
our hearts. Truthful methods of farming are all the same: easy and plain. If you
cannot understand, the problem could lie in that knowledge, not you.