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

5. JADAM liquid ferilizer (JLF)
There are quite a few ideas that make no sense but have become com-
mon sense. They are claims like: it should not smell when you make liq-
uid fertilizers; there should be no maggots; black mold should not form;
you will be in trouble if you use smelly liquid fertilizer, etc. Our ancestors
who did organic farming for millennia certainly did not think this way.
They knew that the bad smell of liquid fertilizers equalled the sweet smell
of fruits. All those famous local produce were made from the quite un-
sweet smelling human manure, green manure and organic waste. Let us
not give up what our ancestors had been doing in harmony with the na-
ture; what is easy and works; what saves money and energy. All those
input manufacturers and their agents tenaciously continue an anti-cam-
paign against traditional inputs. They are destroying the very foundation
of our organic farming. This criterion of smell – that bad smell is bad and
good smell is good – has gained such an enormous power that everybody
believes so. Look how much farmers have already fallen prey to the busi-
nesspeople; 1 liter (33.8 fl oz) of imported liquid fertilizer costs an as-
tounding 200 dollars. 1 L (33.8 fl oz) of liquid fertilizer permitted in
organic production costs up to 100 dollars. Now, liquid fertilizers are
costing more money for farmers than chemical pesticides. I would not be
too exaggerating to say that farm input shops make profits through tie-in
sales of liquid fertilizers to chemical pesticides. 
I stress that liquid fertilizer is nutrient supplement. Any nutrient supple-
ment should be judged by its nutritional value. Process of making them
should be focused on destroying the nutrients in the least. Fertilizer with
the richest nutrients are the best ones. I suggest that we view this input in
the “nutritional perspective.” Which kind of fertilizer is best for tomatoes?
It is fertilizer made from tomatoes. at is the perfect answer. Nutritional
perspective will make everything simple. Once you become faithful to this
nutritional perspective, you will ind that only I have the ingredients for my
crops, only I can make it, and it only costs very little. It is an important
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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.