Bamboo cultivation for tender shoots
Bamboo is a perennial grass. It is categorized under the same family of grass as wheat, rice and many other monocots. Bamboo is an evergreen plant in the true grass family with a few of
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Toddy | Sugar(Jaggery) Palmyra Palm Tree (Borassus flabellifer) growing on sand
Sand that you seen on the ocean and river beds are basically rocks which have eroded over time, weathered and pulverized over decades, some even millions of years old. Sand is also a type of
World’s Biggest and Heaviest Tuber Vegetable: Food Security for the underprivileged
It’s a myth that organic farming yields less. To some extent it is correct, at least in Kerala. Kerala is blessed with bountiful rains, so normal vegetables like tomatoes, beans, chillies, onion etc barely survive,
Why are Nursery Grown Plants and Trees Unhealthy?
Have you ever wondered why plants planted and nurtured on their own are healthy and yield well without pest attack and other problems? First let’s understand why nature-grown trees are healthier and yield well and
Effective Natural ways to Control and use weed
Men sow seeds. Weeds, are God’s deeds. As this saying shows, it really is difficult to compete with weeds while farming. De-weeding becomes a back breaking process without smart planning. Weeds will suck up most
How do DDT, Endosulfan and other pesticide react with Human Body?
Dr G Nammalvar once said in his TED talk and laughed,“Poisons are called medicine in local languages”(puchi marande– medicine for pest‘tamil’). Any word that ends in “cide” would be killing something. So chemicals which kill
