Mix cropping : - It's the essential ideology for natural farming and it takes us more closer to the ways of nature . - By that we make the atmosphere of diversity and multi levels of plants like forests in the field . diverse crops attracts veried insects from different levels of food chain , so it ends the massive distraction by insects . - Different crops of different life span , on different hights , utelize maximum sun light from / for the field and increase production ratio of the same area . - Legumenus and non-legumenus crops together contenously maintain soil fertility in increasing manner . |
No fertilizers :
If our soil did not loose the livingness and fertility by unnessecory cultivation and chemical usses , then we have to belive on who can grow the big trees like banyan , then shurely it would be able to grow our small crops without any external push . by mix cropping we can steadly maintain the fertility of the soil without any fertilizers . In dry weight of a plant 95% comes from the atmospher and only 5% comes from the soil , and soil it self has power atleast more from that 5% , so even we don't need any organic fertilizer from outside . if we take monoculture even in organic farming , soil fertility gets down but if we just return the crop husk to the same land where it grown , it get's recover . |
No pestisides :
We know that each crop has its specific pest who likes it much so just by mix cropping we can decreas its attack directly to 40% , and also different crops attracts different insects , birds and predetors so they manage there numbers there own , and that's how we had left that way, of using pestesides ,and now we all know the deadly truth of pestisides . |
No cultivation :
It's a common belief that cultivation softens the land , so it's helpful for plants growth and to its roots to spread . actully it turns out the soil and expose all the roots of weeds (where the last beacterias trieng to live ) and it turns all soil with its life of fungus , earthworms , ents ,termids direct to the sun . eventually all get died , and thats how we lost the life gards of the soil . Everytime cultivation more fine up the soil particles and broke all bonds bitween soil and roots , by how speedly land get soften , it gets more hard with the same , in first rain by soil compection . and minerls get sattles down deep out from the reach of crop roots . fine particles easily melt in water and rose a problem of soil erosion . That's how soil loose its life and fertility then fertilizers become need of farming . so we always tryes to left maximum land for nature to do there own work of soil caring . |
No weeding :
If we belive in holistic farming so we can not leave the weeds just because of our de -valuation judgements . because every creation of the nature truly fulfill there responsiblity simply to that , execept most litrate creature , some weeds do nitrification and make soil more fertile , some minerls wich our crops does not take directly so weeds changes that in different form so other plants can take that . so without killing weeds we try to control the height of that to the crops and leave them to make there seeds again , so the weed and grass do mulching for us that's how we could take much yeaild to chemical farming without removing any weed . |
No irragation :
Sadly we are situated in one of the Dark Zone areas decleared by the indian goverment for very low underground water level . so we do not have much water to irragete , so we are evollving are farming and teachinics accordingly , which just depends on monsoon water and we grow such crop seeds (even of rice ) , which don't need much water . and by green manuring and leaving plant fiber in the land , we saves humidity in the soil for longer periods . by that we able to grow in winter season also without an irragation. |