Effective Micro-organisms

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Dear Samba prabhu and others - regarding EM,

 

To keep a long story short.

 

I visited the factory in Waterlooville, Hampshire, UK, where they manufature

and distribute EM and Organic N. These two products are fairly similar, are

are aimed at 'extensive' agricultural situations.

 

Basically prof. Higa has isolated about 80 micro-organisms that he

manufactures in laboratory conditions (high tech, electron microscope etc)

they consist of two main groups of ntrogen-fixing micro-organisms,

Clostritia pasteurianum and Clostridia butyricum... These are anearobic and

are suspended in Molasses. When these are applied to the land the other

aerobic micro-organisms can develop if the conditions are right.

 

But you cannot apply EM directly to the crop when the concoction is ready.

you have to leave in the soil for some weeks or plant in alternate rows.

Organic N has to be applied some weeks prior to planting a crop.

 

INDORE COMPOST CAN BE MADE AND APPLIED AT ANY TIME DURING CROP PRODUCTION

(Low Tech) thus supplying quick and slow release fertilising effects. it

contains the aerobic nitrogen fixing bacteria Azotobacter chroococcum,

Azamonas and Beijernickia. And some of the end of the process also ends up

anearobic. Thus giving the full range of micro-cosmic avtivity.

But in a low tech fashion - sustainable.

 

I have made kitchen garden compost with EM (fermented in a bag) and without

it and as far as I can see the same organisms kept aerobic as manufactured

in Indore composting are superior in their simplicity (naturally occuring)

and efficacy. Although if you are in a field situation and do not have

access to sufficient organic matter to make large amounts of compost, Oganic

N might well be a good answer to your problems - but in either case you have

to pay for it. AND, with Organic N, you are still have to add organic matter

to your fields.

 

Thus the philosophy of intensive agriculture is more ecological and

sustainable than extensive agriculture.

 

note from 'The Farmers Friend'

3.07 Organic N's nitrogen fixing bacteria compete with plants for the

available nitrogen and so, when it is first applied, you must be certain

there is sufficient nitrogen for both plant and bacterial growth. If the

soil has less than say 2% organic matter, then additional nitrogen must be

applied to prevent competition for the available nitrogen. This extra

nitrogen would normally equate to 25% of the NPK normally applied by the

farmer for that acreage.

 

Any amount of compost added to any field will not be subject to this kind of

deficinecy. It is a product that has been suitably manufactured outside the

field and is complete in its complexity.

 

As in every temple/farm situation there is a great facility for the

manufature of compost. Rural gardeners can collect sufficient OM from those

who throw it away.

 

We (Bhaktivedanta Manor) are currntly making around a half ton per week,

every week, of high quality compost derived from all the WASTE Prasad left

overs, WASTE veg trimmings, WASTE excess donations of varieties of fruits

and veg and WASTE Goshala litter, Road sweepings and Garden WASTE. This

ammounts to a retail value of £7,800/annually.

 

This product is stabilized in 32 days and can thus be moved away from the

compost site safely, to any location, for maturation. IE garden or farmland.

Same applies for toilets (technique patented).

 

I attended a conference in Hull recently with members of the Compost

Association and Soil Association etc. It was easily concludable that we

(ISKCON) have the most advanced system of composting in the country...

as detailed in The Lost Science of Organic Cultivation, available from us.

 

I was approached by one of the large waste management companies present.

They are interested in finding a solution to the quality of the end product

of commercial composting. We are meeting next Monday.

 

Your servant,

 

Radha Krsna das

Richard Higgins.