Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Jeevamrutham -The organic fertilizer


Jeevamrutham is an organic solution which is made from the cow's Dung and urine also with other easily available products. Anyone can prepare this on their own and use as an organic fertilizer for their garden / farm.

The below steps will walk you through how to prepare Jeevamrutham solution:

Ingredients:
Fresh cow dung - 10 Kgs
Cow urine - 10 liters
Jaggery - 2 kgs
Gram flour (Black gram / Urud dhal or Bengal gram) : 2kg  
Water: 200 liters
Hand full of soil from your farm


Take a plastic container which can accommodate more than 200 liters of a solution and place it under a tree. As its good to have this solution prepared under a shade.

Now first mix the Fresh cow dung and urine thoroughly in the container, use a stick of about 6 ft tall to stir it. Use clock wise movement while stirring.


Then, add the gram floor to the mixture, add it little by little and stir continuesly. Make sure that the flour mix well with the mixture.


Then add jaggery to it, Better use the jaggery which is free from pesticide and chemicals. If the jaggery is not in powder form when you buy it, then crush it well before adding. Continue to stir well. 

Add the soil from your land, in which you wish to apply this solution. This is bring the micro organisms from your land to the mixture and make a friendly solution for your land.


Then finally add water and stir well.


Keep this solution closed with a jute bag and stir in clockwise direction in the morning and evening for 48 hours. Then the solution is ready for the field.

You can filter this solution and add to the flowing water or you can also add in your drip irrigation.

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