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Last week saw us harvesting paddy in addition to completing additional sowings, weeding and regular farm activities.
As in most parts of the country, combine harvesters do the job of reaping the paddy and separating the grain from the chaff in one operation. We had to do manual harvesting with women labour in a small wet patch where the harvester had trouble going through. We are currently sun drying the grain, protecting from the occasional rain we are seeing.
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Dear Sir
Is it profitable for the input Vs output
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Good question! 
We grow organic, retail to end customers and are trying to match things out. Doing it for wholesale market is a definite tight rope walk.
in the pictures, you have only planted near the valley/furrow. How are you going to use the middle empty area?
This spacing is mostly for gourds and melons. The vines grow and cover the land.
For crops with lesser coverage, we plant closer.
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Our organic rice crop nursery initiation.
Do comment if you do something differently in your area.
We have recently transplanted 1 acre of onion Nasik Red N53 variety on beds with drip irrigation, and it turned out very labour intensive. Please comment if you grow onion differently.
Video: onion transplant
https://www.agrifarming.in/hydroponic-onion-farming-growing-guide#
Call me back for any queries
M.Dakshina
Chennai hydroponics
8148732297
One of our organic potato plots was attacked and destroyed by wild boars. As we know, farm production is subject to a number of risks, and animal damage is just one of them. We are putting in extra protection to protect our other potato plots.
Watch Video - Wild boar mischief in potato:
@dak45
Thanks for the hydroponics reference. We grow organic and hence don’t go for hydroponics. Also scaling to large scale in hydroponics is another limitation.
Our organic rice crop nursery is coming up nicely!
You may have seen our earlier videos on rice seed soaking and broadcasting. This is an update on how the nursery is shaping up.
Please comment if you do your rice crop differently.
Video - Rice crop nursery is coming up nice:
To protect crop from wild pigs spray
Hot chilly ripe 500 gms make paste with the help of mixer grinder mix in 100 lits of water spray around the plots.
Once pigs approach plot and smell
The plant chilly pungency enter its nose get irritated run away
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Take a look at how our organic carrot fared this winter at our Farm.
Please comment if you grow your carrot crop differently.
Video - Did Organic Carrot grow in our farm? :
Beautiful farm. Please use a farm pond (without liner). If you are using Bore well that means the farm is in ICU. It might not sustain for long. A farm pond completely changes the ecosystem of the farm for the good.
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