Keshav Krishi for a sustainable agriculture!
R. Santhanam
01st July 2009 Swami Valmiki Sreenivasa Ayyangarya is an expert who has mastered the ancient agricultural techniques of antiquity in India (Vedic Sciences). Unlike Vrikshayurveda which has remained in the theoretical and academic domain of which also Swami is quite erudite, Swami’s techniques although very much within the Ayurvedic domain, have however produced excellent results and has successfully revived the ancient Vedic techniques for application to any agricultural crop, soil conditions and climate besides geographical area. He offers a fully established and commercialised technology successfully introduced already in commercial plantations of different crops. His most recent successes include tea and kiwi fruit cultivation in Arunachal Pradesh, coffee in Karnataka and Amla (Emblica officinalis or Indian Gooseberry rich in Vitamin C) in Rajasthan, near Jaipur, Chillies in Bangalore and a patch of mango trees at Amaravati in Maharashtra. He is also researching on paddy. Please refer to the web site in this regard, which details the success in organic tea cultivation: www.abaliorganictea.com Most/all of the diseases which were prevalent at Abali Tea Estate were vanquished and the tea crop restored to a new lease of life. These include the dreaded heliopeltis theivora, blister blight, fungal infections, loppers, green fly, and red spider. Most NE tea estates are being ravaged by these and other diseases, with resultant loss of production and price rises. The tea from Abali has achieved organic certification and also tested zero residuals in reputed test houses of Kolkatta and at Bangalore. He has named his proprietary knowledge and Vedic sciences based technology as “Keshav Krishi” after the place called Keshavpura in Yavtamal district of Maharashtra, India. Keshav Krishi allows low energy; resources and very little external inputs based agriculture. It is particularly suited for developing countries, offering employment for rural young and allows farmers to become self sufficient. Like many successful organic farming practices, it has similar elements of organic farming practices incorporated in it. However the formulations are unique. We offer technology transfer and technology absorption package of consultancy services so that farm workers are enabled to make and apply most of the formulations themselves. Some formulations are supplied from central manufacturing facilities. These include the latest Guruvani and Suravani. Both the manufacture of formulations and its applications have to strictly follow the operations plan as devised by Swami, who has majored in statistics and mathematics in his higher education and is hence quite comfortable with management techniques like operations research, PERT, time and motion studies, so that he is able to make the whole agronomy very efficient and an exact system. The training usually lasts 1 year and further hand holding is also offered if required. At a time a limited few assignments are undertaken since we are in the process of slowly building up the required manpower to carry out the services under direct supervision of the swami. References: Kunapala Jala: Aricle: Blog/discussion: Binod Saharia's organic plantations using Keshav Krishi http://agropedia.iitk.ac.in/?q=content/abali-organic-tea-and-amla-plantation-description Contact for communications: Mr R.Santhanam |