agriculture tips

In our Agriculture for Everybody  blog series, we are going to see how to select the Crops based on Water Needs. The Data provided below will help the farmers choose the crops based on the water availability. High Water Requiring Medium Water Requiring Low Water Requiring 1.Arecanut 1.Acidlime 1.Agave 2.Banana 2.Allspice 2.Amla 3.Betelvine 3.Amaranth 3.Annona 4.Cocoa 4.Annual Moringa 4.Apricot 5.Coconut 5.Apple 5.Bengalgram 6.Grapes 6.Ash Gourd 6.Ber 7.Jute 7.Asparagus 7.Bilimbi 8.Oilpalm 8.Aster 8.Blackgram 9.Papaya 9.Avocado 9.Carambola 10.Rice 10.Babycorn 10.Cashewnut 11.Sugarbeet 11.Basella 11.Castor 12.Sugarcane 12.Beetroot 12.Cowpea 13.Sweet Sorghum 13.Bellary Onion 13.Cumbu Napier 14.Bhendi 14.Cumbu 15.Bitter Gourd 15.Fodder Cholam 16.Bottle Gourd 16.Fodder Cowpea 17.Bread Fruit 17.Fodder Cumbu 18.Bread Fruit 18.Fodder Maize 19.Brinjal 19.Garden lablab 20.Broadbeans 20.Gingelly 21.Brussels Sprout 21.Greengram 22.Butter Bean 22.Groundnut 23.Cabbage 23.Guinea Grass 24.Car...

In our Agriculture for Everybody  blog series, we are going to see the detailed approach to Live / Natural Fence. I am giving below some of the base designs and request the users to tweak the designs to suit their requirements.  I also request the users to provide the designs which are not part of the base design. Model / Design 1 This model/design is a very simple one and it is best suited for traditional crops like Paddy, Sugarcane, Vegetable Farming etc or where the land holding is very small (< 3 acres) and hence cannot allocate more land to the fences. The boundaries or bunds of this model is generally higher than the main crops in the middle and hence farmers should go for boundary trees which have single pole (stem) and not multi-branched.  Examples are Mahogany or any timber trees which have single pole. Each of the timber trees should be placed at 6 feet apart (or more) and in between bushes need to be planted.  The bushes need to grow atle...