Re: [bsg-goa] Re: SEEKING YOUR ASSISTANCE PLEASE

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Miguel Braganza

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Jul 2, 2012, 1:14:01 AM7/2/12
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Dear Mervyn,

You can pick a graft of KONKAN BAHADOLI large jambool selection produced by RFRS-Vengurla from any farm/nursery of the Directorate of Agriculture these days. It is also a good time to plant. I recommend the addition of 1 kg rock phosphate [current brand at Goa Bagayatdar Society is UNIPHOS and it is available now] to the soil while refilling the pit as our soils are both ACIDIC [5.6 to 6.5 pH] and poor in PHOSPORUS [needed for all energy storage in plants and, hence, for growth of roots and shoots]. Rock phospate is not soluble in water and it ensures slow release of the phosphorus to the plants. Add leaf mould [rotted leaves under any tree or compost and/or cowdung [a handful of fresh cow dung is better] to provide the necessary bacteria to breakdown the rockphosphate. Otherwise add Biophos PSB [Phosphate Solubilizing Bacteria marketed by ZAC & ZIL now named Adventz].

Add a gamela/pantulo full of compost, 3 Kg of rockphosphate and half a kilo of Muriate of Potash [B R D Desai on Station Road, Margao, may be most convenient source for you]. Cut out dead, dying and criss-crossing branches NOW. Make sure that the BARK on the UNDERSIDE OF THE BRANCH is notched first. This prevents PEELING of the bark when the branch is cut. Ensure the cut is finally VERTICAL. Use a hack-saw or carpenter's saw if needed. This prevents rotting of the wood and getting hollow trunks in a few years exposure to rain water. This will rejuvenate the OLD trees. It will keep younger trees healthy.

Visit "Goa Agri Horti Centre" [formerly "Kakoda Farm"], behind MMC Building Margao. Mr. G. D. Alphonso, is a wealth of information [I learnt termite management from him] and a generous person rare to find in this world. Yogita Mehra and Karan Manral at GREEN ESSENTIALS are a couple of them in Taleigao and Chorao. 

Seeing is believing ..... and the best of learning is by doing. Those who are interested in the care of FRUIT TREES and are willing to spend a week day [10 A.M. to 4 P.M.]or a weekend [4 P.M. to 4 P.M. the next day] at the MAHAMAYA Nursery and Agri. Farm, Varchawada-Sal [You can stay at the RAUT FARM or Godfrey's INDIAN Retreat nearby in the same village] near Dodomarg in Bicholim taluka can email me directly or call at contacts in my email signature. Obviously, there will be a charge for that. MNAF-Sal, is a business enterprise  that must show profits at the end of 31 March, 2013. I know a lot of PEST control and WEED control, but at MNAF you will only learn how to do it ORGANICALLY. There are no pests [insects, fungi, etc are also LIVING ORGANISMS] and no WEEDS: they are PLANTS for which we have not found a better use yet. We use them as BIOMASS for compost till we find that they have some medicinal or other use.

 Fruit Crops is my specialization at the Masters level in Agriculture and I have 29 years of professional experience beginning as an Assistant Agriculture Officer dealing with horticulture at the Zonal Agriculture Office on 01 July, 1983 and getting thousands of mango grafts mande and maintained from Conde de Mayem property in Mayem and Narva to mango trees at Dab-dabo in Piligao. By a happy coincidence, the "Open Day" at the Mahamaya Nursery & Agri. Farm yesterday marked the date and it deals with Vengurla-4 cashew grafts that were first distributed in Bicholim in June, 1984, by the Directorate of Agricuture through me at the instance of the then Horticulture Development Officer Mr. Ramesh G. Joshi [retired as Director of Agriculture in 1997] and in epicotyl grafting of mango [developed by Dr. R. S. Amin at the Gujarat Agriculture University in 1981 while I was a student at UAS-Bangalore] and popularized by me in the Directorate since July, 1985, instead of being an exclusive domain of one Agriculture Assistant, Thomas Assange [not linked to WikiLeaks] at the Duler Farm of Zonal Agriculture Office, bang opposite my residence then ....and now.

You can also learn how to grow OYSTER MUSHROOMS the way 70 students from Shri Ganesh High School, Ganeshpuri-Mapusa, [till last week I did not even know such a school existed in my home town!] learnt yesterday. Mushroom spawn is readily available at the Mushroom & BioControl Lab at Ela Farm, Old Goa. I helped set up the Mushroom lab in 1995 when I was the Agriculture Officer-Horticulture [1993-96]and a former student at the YCMOU study centre, Ms. Prathama Rane, now makes the spawn and does demonstrations at Ela. The spawn costs Rs.15 per 250g bag and is enough to get 1kg mushrooms worth Rs.150/-. Cost of 1.5 kg straw and 3 polythene bags of 30 x 50 cm [1foot x 1.5 feet approx] extra.

One can also learn how to make BUSH PEPPER, a closely guarded secret of Mr. P.A. Mathew of ICAR-Goa ....till I learnt it from a mali at the National Research Centre for Spices, Calicut [now ISRC, Kozhikhode] in Kerala and taught it to the malis in the Directorate. 

To me KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS are for sharing. Otherwise the good dies with us ...like the SECRET recipes for making fruit wines till my "Guru" [He was 'officially' my Art teacher but I cannot draw for nuts] Edwin Saldanha wrote a book. Now Dr. John Carmo Rodrigues, Ph. D in Microbiology, is going to make it better. His recipe for the difficult-to-make-till-now Kokum wine has been presented by me at the Organic Wine Pre-Conference of the Organic Wold Congress 2011in Seoul, Korea, and is printed in the copyleft "Resource Book on Kokum" also available free in PDF by email on request.

 I believe in T.E.A.M. work for "Together Everyone Achieves More".

SUCCESS has a thousand fathers, FAILURE dies an orphan. Everyone disowns it.

SMILE .... it goes an extra MILE ... and the world smiles with you.

Mog asundi

Miguel

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Mervyn Menezes <mervy...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
 

Dear Miguel,
 
I am from Varca. Over past few years I have noticed that the jambul trees around my area are not producing any fruit. These same trees during my childhood would produce quite a lot. What could the reason be? Can something be done to help the trees to produce some fruit?  Where could I get saplings of the jambul tress? Due to my job I am in Mumbai, but I do come to Goa quite often.
Appreciate your assistance in this regard.
 
Mervyn
9823258532

--- On Tue, 26/6/12, Miguel Braganza <braganz...@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Miguel Braganza <braganz...@gmail.com>
Subject: [bsg-goa] Re: SEEKING YOUR ASSISTANCE PLEASE
To: "celes fernandes" <cfer...@yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, 26 June, 2012, 1:51 PM


 
Dear Celes,

Manuring of mango trees must end in June. Application of 5 Kg. compost, 1 Kg. Rock Phosphate [Uniphos from Goa Bagayatdar Society or other sources] or Bone Meal and 0.5 Kg. of Muriate of Potash [available till August only] should do good. You must have applied the local salt already in summer. Two gamelas of is far too much.

The basic rule with manures is ; "Just because a little is good, lots is not always better."

Manuring/Watering of branched plants is best in the "drip circle" or the outer margin of the 12 noon shadow.

If the stalk of the fallen breadfruit is yellow, application of Potash [wood ash or MOP] will help. If it turns brown, you may have to spray Copper oxy Chloride when the rains subside in September.

Visit the FESTIVAL OF PLANTS & FLOWERS at SFX School, Siolim [likely dates 12 to 14 August] or the CENTENARY PLANT FESTIVAL at Sacred Heart High School, Parra, from 1 to 3 September this year for plants, manures and information.

Mog asundi

Miguel

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:14 PM, celes fernandes <cfer...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Miguel,
 
I need your help regarding the plant probems:
 
1. Our mango trees mankurad and mussarat trees, we have total five of them.  The Mango tree gives yield every alternate year but qty. is very less.  Can you suggest what type of manure should I use? At what distance should the Manure be put from the tree  and how long should I use the manure.  Previously we use to put 2 gamela of salt on each tree as manure. Is it right what we are doing?  Also is watering daily required?\
 
2. Our coconut trees the yield is very less compared to the manure we put.  We use to put urea, cowdung only once every year but result of the yield is very less.  Also some baby coconut falls down.  What is the thurmb rule for placing the manure from the tree, is it close or far? Is watering daily required for better yield of coconuts?
 
3. Our bread fruit tree also does not give yield what the fruits appear they fall down without maturing.  Also the size is small and now since one year it has stopped yielding any fruits?
 
5. Our Bamboo which we call Maan in konkani does not become strong. What type of mud and manure is required for the Bamboos to become strong and grow long?
 
6. Also jackfruit tree, sitaphal tree does not yield since many years.
 
Please enlighten me with your expert knowledge.
 
Regards
 
 
Celes



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