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Here's presenting you the story of Swati Chinnadurai who grows organic and medicinal plants. Here's a list of plants grown by her. 1.)Add a spice to your meals and a glow to your face with turmeric, known to be medicinal and antiseptic and heal wound immediately. Turmeric plant 2.)Keep your respiratory track clear by taking ajwain + hot water steam daily! Ajwain plant 3.)One of my favourite fruits!! Jamun plant 4.)Divine blessing! Brahma Kamal, named after Brahma, the God of Creation, probably blooms only for one night in the entire year. - The flower starts blooming after sunset from 7 p m onwards and takes about two hours to full bloom, about 8 inches. - It is believed to bring in loads of good luck and prosperity and a home, very auspicious and lucky. Brahma kamalam 5.)Veld grape is very useful for stomach as well as heart. It will set right gastric disorder and protect the heart. - The crushed paste form this is very useful in treating swelling due to injury, pain, catch...

Have you ever heard of sapling trees with only 1 litre of water? Yes, you read it right. This unrealistic idea has been brought to reality by Mr. Sundaram Verma who lives in Danta village, 50 km from Sikar district in Rajasthan which has extreme climatic conditions and depleted rainfall pattern (25 to 50cm per year). He has always been inclined towards science and systematic agriculture practices. He used to attend various training programs at agriculture universities and research stations to learn about the new processes and practices in agriculture. In a training program at Indian Agricultural Research Institute (Delhi), he learnt about the role of the capillary movement of water in causing loss of subsurface water through evaporation and the effect of weeds in loss of soil moisture. Results from experiments (that he performed on his farm) made him realize that below a depth of 30cm, the soil has sufficient moisture for the survival of the plants provided there is breaking up of the...

Here's presenting you the story of Shanti R I have a small terrace garden, where I grow few vegetables in organic way. It is really challenging as I need the soil to be nutritious. I have few trees in my compound that shed a lot of leaves. These leaves are a great source of carbon and other nutrients. You can see people burning the leaves and twigs in the name of cleaning. If you burn one 1kg of leaves, maybe 50gm ash is the residue, or the matter that does not get oxidized. Some even claim the ash can be used in farms as manure and in pest control. But in fact, these carbon which gets oxidized due to burning cause severe air pollution. I use these leaves and garden waste as manure. As my garden is in the terrace, I use these dried leaves right from filling my grow bags as it reduces the uses of soil and in turn reduces the weight the terrace holds. I also cover my plant at the top of the growbag, with these dried leaves so that the root of the plant is not exposed to sun an...

Composting series 4.0  Credit: Alok Kumar Gupta