How Biochar Can Double Crop Yield and Transform Soil

[00:00:00]Lot of people may not be familiar with how to make activated charcoal. But we will teach you here at Kha. You just come here, spend 3 4 days with us.

[00:00:12]Besides uh spirituality, besides meditation, you can learn how to create biochar also how to do this modern way of agriculture in poly houses or via uh hydroponics.

[00:00:29]How to develop nursery [music] farming agriculture traditional way as well as the newest latest technology in the field of agriculture really excites me. It's very [music] innovative and can save lot of efforts by going into research in the field of agriculture.

[00:00:58]For example, we can produce with little effort much [music] more produce. For example, when we use biocharol, it doubles up or triples up our yield.

[00:01:12]And what is the cost of biocharol?

[00:01:16]No more than 4,000 rupees per ton.

[00:01:21]If you can have the petty production doubled up, tripled up, imagine the [music] profit you are talking about.

[00:01:29]And this biocharcoal you just have to put only once because biocharcoal doesn't degrade at all for thousands of years. It just stays there. It [music] keeps things absorbed in this intracellular structure.

[00:01:49]It doesn't collapse.

[00:01:51]In fact, as it collapses more, surface area only increases.

[00:01:56]What happens when particle is broken down? The total surface area will only increase.

[00:02:04]So more it breaks down, the larger the surface area and the greater the capacity to absorb nutrients into its structure.

[00:02:15]We have all seen how most AO filters they use charcoal also to purify water. What is the quality of this charcoal? It absorbs everything good and bad.

[00:02:32]When someone drinks a poison things like stricken or some pesticide ends up drinking immediately you make them eat charcoal or make powder and make them drink a charcoal powder. It will keep it absorbed in the stomach.

[00:02:52]It will not go from stomach into blood and you can save a person.

[00:02:58]You can save a life.

[00:03:00]Another you know the monkey brand it cleans your teeth very well charcoal say another use you're traveling a lot you're in a village to village on the way you might have diarrhea what will happen take a roti or chapati or a bread burn it a little bit like a charcoal out of it and eat it that will remove the area because it absorbs all the toxins.

[00:03:35]So let's make use of new innovations.

[00:03:37]Here we are trying new stuff. We are also trying tissue culture. We are trying hydropolics. We are trying this direct root irrigation through injection.

[00:03:50]We are also trying our way with this aeroponics, hydroponics, aquaponics.

[00:03:58]So so many things are going on in our ashum but most importantly it is the [music] atmosphere that we provide helps the plants to grow better. [music] When we talk of Rammanuja great mathematician and he was recorded saying that some goddess appears to him while calculating something and I don't know how I'm coming to those answers she tells me what to answer and this happens to this happened to him all the time moment he closed his eyes and thought of the goddess finding the solution in my life also As I was mentioning, I'm not so educated but many things that I have come across in my meditation especially regarding the water conservation sir and water management.

[00:05:03]We all know that RO filters are used in purifying water and what is it that RO filter contains which which becomes so extraordinary charcoal.

[00:05:18]Right?

[00:05:20]Charcoal absorbs. It has the capacity to absorb good, bad, everything it absorbs.

[00:05:28]I'm a pharmacist.

[00:05:30]I was wondering when we used to dispense charcoal capsules for two reasons. One was for acid reflux. When there's so much of acidity, we used to give charcoal capsules.

[00:05:45]Another instance when we used to give lots of charcoal capsule maybe 10 15 charcoal capsule say drink it all in one go was when somebody tries to commit suicide and some sort of alkaloids or stricken is consumed you take so much of it again as I mentioned it absorbs things it is said it has to be confirmed but I read it somewhere but you guys can confirm it 10 g of charcoal from vegetable able source is equivalent to if its surface area is so intricate cellular and tissue structure is such that merely 10 g of charcoal is equivalent to 1 acre of land.

[00:06:28]So if we can saturate this charcoal with some fertilizer either organic or whatever is available depends on your fancy but both experiments can be done and I have seen while experimenting sir in our ghana asham that one patch of moonong dal one patch of tu dal with and without charcoal that were saturated with cow urine and cow dunk and one with one without doubles up or triples up the yield of the crop that was exposed to the charcoal.

[00:07:14]The condition is that it must be saturated first before you throw the charcoal otherwise char that very charcoal will destroy the crop because it absorbs away all that is available. it diverts it to self and it's not available to plants.

[00:07:31]So this is one fun I have found.

[00:07:35]Second fun that in my first year of moving to Karna near Mabagar absolutely barren land hardly 40 to 50 uh nim trees were there and pongam trees were there the water was thousand plus feet below the ground see first monsoon we studied the water flow how water was moving in that in that property Once we understood the flow of water, we created we deepened the flow and every 100 ft we created pits and in this pits we put about a foot height of charcoal and on top put the rocks so that won't be washed away with water's flow. So as water flows it gets into the first pit water goes into saturates this water and underground water will only it's a pure water that is going see once it is filled up the overflow will go to the second pit, third pit, fourth pit and it goes on until it finds its way into the pond.

[00:08:53]Similar thing we did wherever we had bore wells. So around the bore well we dug almost I would say width of 15 ft diameter and almost 10 to 12 ft of depth. And again same thing charcoal we filled it up with charcoal. Water quality really really improved so well that now we get water at 50 ft to 100 ft level. See, and the greenery that you see is amazing. It's it's mindblowing actually. Uh rainforest species or something that would grow uh in western garts or in the northeast.

[00:09:36]You can you won't expect that to happen in Telangana.

[00:09:40]But you can see all those trees blooming and well surviving. not just well surviving thriving uh incana in four to five years it has come about and it is worth seeing and I give the credits to this charcoal uses soil quality can be enriched with charcoal water quality can be improved [music] well I would like to say that you to farmer number one thing very important is the [music] soil condition number two is the water condition and whether you're able to get water regularly or not and despite of having two things there are all chances that the pests you know insects might destroy your crop so there are many things involved and it's a very complex thing I think perhaps the only profession that requires tremendous level of surrender and faith in God is the farming profession. See cuz everything are left to nature and God you are at their mercy. So when such is the case whenever we visit our farm first thing we should do is at least for 5 minutes close your eyes and meditate there.

[00:11:03]Just cool down sit down and meditate under a tree in your farm.

[00:11:10]Then pray to the farm itself to guide you what to plant there.

[00:11:17]It will speak to you. You'll feel what to plant, how to plant, when to plant.

[00:11:23]All this guidance will come and uh the soil will speak to you. You'll feel that let's do this, let's not do that. I think follow these instructions [music] which comes from the land itself. Buhu mata we call pu ma [music] say and that spirit of mother actually awakens when you are maintaining such a sentiment of surrender and waiting for guidance to come from boom mata. It will guide you.

[00:11:58]She will guide you and you cannot go wrong when she guides us. When we meditate and when we follow such um intuitions arising from bumata in our hearts the yield also increases manyfold.

[00:12:16]Right now in order for bumata and nature also to contribute much towards us. We should spray at least activated charcoal uh quantity of one ton per acre if you want to double up or triple up the crop.

[00:12:32]For example, if you have rice patty and if you are growing 10 tons per acre, you can have 20 tons or 30 tons after uh throwing one ton of activated charcoal.

[00:12:47]Now lot of people may not be familiar with how to make activated charcoal [music] but we will teach you here at Kha. You just come here, spend 3 4 days with us.

[00:13:02]Besides uh spirituality, besides meditation, you can learn how to create biochar also how to do this modern way of agriculture in poly houses or via uh hydroponics, how to develop nursery, how to multiply mango, how to grow 10 types of mangoes on one tree itself, uh things like that. And uh even if you don't have a land of your own still you can make a decent amount of money through the techniques that we have developed.

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