2024, Vol. 7, Special Issue 6

author(s)
Rudragouda F Channagoudar, Gajendra Khidrapure and Shivaputra Bammanahalli

abstract
Organic farmers follow a lot of eco-friendly practices. Supply of nutrients through FYM (2.5 ton), vermicompost (10 q), compost (on farm wastes like weeds, coconut leaves, coconut husk, crop residues, glyricidia, jetropa, drumstick and custard apple are recycled in to compost to provide excellent nutrients to crops, biodigestor (200 lts), growing green manuring crops (1.5 t) as sunhemp, dhaincha, lucern, stylosanthous and pulses crops like greengram, blackgram cowpea, and horse bean, Also green leaf manuring crops are glyricidia, subabul etc were grown on field bunds, residue management, mulching (crop residues, weeds are used for mulching which helps to keep down evaporation loss besides adding valuable nutrients to soil as they decompose, Cropping system ( included pulses) and seed treated with biofertilizer like rhizobium (1 kg), azospherilium (1 kg), Azatobactria (0.5 kg), PSP (1 kg) and Beejamruth for higher crop yield. Also farmers prepared some important growth promoters as jeevamruth (200 s), amruthpani, sassyamruth, panchagavy (250 l), coconut tender water, vermiwash and butter milk to boost crop yield. For pest and diseases management use botanicals like Azadirecta indica, Akoras Kalimas, Adthoda vesica, Ageva american, vica rosa, clirodendran enarav, Vitex nigunda, Nirium olinder, Anona scamosa, marigold, tulasi, and aswagandha, Theae leaves are fermented with cow urine and mixed with vermiwash to serve as foliar spray. neem oil, neemcake, butter milk, garlic, onion, ginger, glyricidia extraction also used as foliar spray. Average cost of cultivation, Gross return and net return (Rs/ha) of cereals were Rs. 9432, 24250 and 14818, respectively in one acre.