How to improve soil fertility
& Organic Carbon?

What Dhabolkar, Bhaskar Save,
Narayana Reddy & Nammalvar

A complete info on Natural Farming
by SR Sundar Raman

SR Sundar Raman from Satyamangalam of TN
He has total 60 years of Experience in Farming
He h's been getting high yields in Natural farming
First 30 years, he practiced inorganic farming
His farming career went along with Green Revolution
Later he realized the devastation of Chemical farming
Pesticides usage has increased 12 times in 25 years
He started Tamilnadu Farmers Technology Association
He learnt basics of Natural Farming from 6 Guru's
His brother SR Ramakrishnan was his first Guru
SN Nagarajan, G Nammalvar, Narayana Reddy, Dhabolkar
Balakrishnan & Bhaskar Save were other Guru's
Dhabolkar team published a book named ”Plenty for All”
The book contains how to improve the soil fertility&carbon
As per Dhabolkar Microbial activity is 9 inches of top soil only
Dhabolkar classified Soils in to three groups says Raman
To improve soil fertility Microbial activity should be 10 %
With animal and plant wastes can improve the soil fertility
Dhabolkar 60 days of Green Manure crops is the best
We can generate 1520 tonnes of plants waste in soil
All the feeder roots are the residence for Microbes
Microbes enriched by sucking juices of feeder roots
In return microbes absorb & make availble the nutrients
Microbes converts residues into various nutrients
Organic matter will convert as humas & organic carbon
Organically grown crops are healthier off natural intake
To have 1% of org. carbon need 10% microbial activity
If 1% of organic carbon in Soil, it fulfills 90% of nutrients
To prevent carbon evaporation, plough is must after harvest
1% of carbon can absorb 1015 tons of carbon sequestration