Making of organic fertilizers #1 "PANCHAKAVYA"

in #agriculture7 years ago

Have you ever felt like your plants in your farm are looking dull/droopy? No worries !! U can solve it with some organic material which are easily available in your farms. The Following Methodology is used by the community of organic farmers in Tamilnadu (India)
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Intro to Panchakavya

Panchagavya is an organic product which much helps in promoting the growth of plants and improve their immunity. Panchagavya is basically made from a five products from cow they are cow dung, cow urine, milk, curd, and ghee. It will be zero cost product if you have cow in your farms. Let us see the basic preparation of Panchakavya
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Ingredients

  • Cow dung - 5 Kg
  • Cow ghee - 1 ltr
  • Cow Urine - 5 ltr
  • cow milk - 2 ltr
  • cow curd - 2 ltr
  • Jaggery - 2 Kg
  • Any other sweet product like Jaggery (Optional)
  • Water - As Per Requirement

Preparation

  1. Put cow dung (5kg), ghee (1ltr) in a plastic bucket and stir well. Daily stir the mix twice a day for four days
  2. On Fifth day add all other materials in a larger container and stir well. In order to avoid Housefly's or any other insert's contact simply put a cloth over a container like mosquito net
  3. Twice a day stir the mix for 20 mins. This Process helps the micro organisms to get their oxygen.
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  4. Repeat step 3 for 30 days
  5. That's all You have the punchakavya

Usage

In order to use Panchakavya on plants :

Caution: Don't directly use the Panchakavya on plants

Take 300 ml of prepared panchakavya and mix it with 10 ltr of water and then spray it over the plants

Properties of Panchakavya

Chemical Composition

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ComponentQty
pH5.45
N (ppm)10.22
P (ppm)229
K (ppm)232
Sodium90
Calcium25

Microbial Load

MicrobesQty
Fungi38800/ml
Bacteria1880000/ml
Lactobacillus2260000/ml
Total anaerobes10000/ml
acid formers360/ml
Methanogen250/ml

Final Words

Panchakavya is the Purely organic fertilizer when U use it on your farm , the veggies from your farm will be highly healthy product. Panchakavya will increase the microbes rate on the soil so your soil will automatically be in good condition . Use of Panchakavya will reduce the impact of diseases on the plants and as I mentioned before It will increase the immunity of plants

In Southern parts of india people drink Panchakavya (Preparation method is different for humans) in order to stay healthy

I make a series of post which will tell you how to make organic fertilizer at your farm
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