Mixed Farming Will Haunt You Forever If You Don't This Fact
Whenever decides to practice mixed Farming one must know the maturity period and the cropping pattern of individual crops what is the basic maturity period of the crop one thing must know beforehand let me inform you that turmeric takes around 190-210 days to mature the other crop of Urad that we grew with turmeric takes a period of 60 -90 days to mature.
So what happened was that till 60 days the turmeric grew only to small height and at that time it is fit to harvest Urad so it is ready for market we grew Maize in the same field which matures and gives COB in around 45 days but turmeric would not germinate also in these 45 days which is maturing time of maize what i want to convey is whatever crops you chose for mixed farming should be chosen wisely. For example, it is blunder to grow a chilli crop with turmeric.
The reason is ...both have the same maturity period of 7 months after 7 months. How will turmeric mature along with chilli and how will you harvest the two separately? sowing groundnut along with turmeric is another blunder groundnut takes 41/2 months to mature and in 41/2 months turmeric would have grown to a great height can u now estimate what influence this have on groundnut growing underneath how will you work on the two.
How will you take it out bull cannot be used to harvest these crops and you cannot even extract it manually because both of them are corns so whatever crop you decide to grow in mixed farming consider its maturity period among other factors with complete understanding of its growth pattern, maturity and harvest time etc so false and misleading practice and information will only make one gain the fruit of sinful activity therefore please do not do it truth always remains with the sun it glows likes the sun lie cannot survive for long.
But the wise soon realise the facts and truth thus i place all truth before you know you have to discriminately think and decide over it let me also show you how my labour has grown chilli with these crops in the field for self consumption here you can see the condition of chilli here in the field at the moment see it in dept hand the with a closer sight the chilli as you see can not grow whereas it is not receiving proper sunlight moreover chilli mature in 7 months in that period.
Turmeric could have grown and spread all over the place shading chilli plant how would the chilli survive in absence of sunlight see and observe the full row of chilli plants so this is quite a blunder therefore one should not spread misleading information thus time of maturity of crops in mixed farming is of utmost importance.
Many people say and advise to grow turmeric with sugarcane crop again both turmeric and sugarcane take a period of 7 months to mature in 7 months sugarcane attains a height of 14 to 15 ft whereas turmeric only grows to a height of 6 ft by that time so sugarcane will grow over turmeric,
Then how will you turmeric take out from the sugarcane plants because do extract this crop you will either use tractor or use bull how will you do it with sugarcane growing to a height of 15ft in its vicinity so whatever you grow friends please gather right information from experienced person do not blindly follow the misleading information and become a victim of loss the beginners with little knowledge about mixed farming often have to suffer heavy losses in their business in life these poor farmers.
Invest heavily in this activity only to suffer and fail hopelessly he himself does not have the right knowledge and is guided by misleading fools who guides without experience and knowledge thus he becomes trapped and suffer financial loss physically and mentally too he becomes hopeless and decides to leave the farming practises.
I want to request all you please walk on the path of the truth only whatever information is given by me is completely scientific and practical knowledge so i want to just give you right information my aim is not to criticise others spread the truth and put in your efforts and listen to this advice follow.
Scientific method therefore do not grow the crops with same maturity period on the same field while practising mixed farming always consider the time of maturity of crop before sewing them together so mixed farming should be done following the right system mixed cropping has been done in our country since ancient times it has not been coming to us from other cultures.
It is our own cultural farming technique practised in india since ancient time grow maize with groundnut because cob come above and groundnut grows under the ground also groundnut takes 41/2 months to mature whereas maize takes around 45 to 60 days mature and become fit to be harvested so such crops are ideal for mixed farming another ex- one can grow CUMIN with RAJGIRA on its border.
if one grows coriander then sow mustard on its border these are best options for mixed farming this maturity time the growth pattern of crop plants, the structure and body type of crop plan tall should be clearly understood before sowing friends.
I would also like to explain that i want to share my life's experience with you all as you can see we have planted ARHAR on the border you can grow ARHAR, WALL with turmeric you can sow Urad in the beginning or MOON or maize as all these crops mature within the time period of 45 to 60 days whereas in this time period turmeric will hardly.
Start growing turmeric barley sprouts in 1 to 2 months till turmeric grows to its full length you will have empty field for its easy harvest such crops can be good choice for mixed farming if you wish to practice mixed farming with sugarcane then Urad, MOONG, MAIZE AND BAJRA are good options to grow with sugarcane but do not grow turmeric with sugarcane.
This will not be fruitful if someone claims to have succeeded following this wrong method then i am sure he is telling otherwise he might have had only 1/2 acre of land with 4 to 5 people working on it otherwise a single plant of turmeric has3 to 4 kilos of turmeric in its roots therefore it is impossible to extract it manually with a hoe.
So what i am telling you here is all practical based on my personal experiential knowledge i am not reciting it from any bookish information. it is my personal experiences you should do like it is told here so that the success is guaranteed and spread this right information as far as possible so that not a single farmer becomes unhappy also no bad names can come to agricultural practice.
Generally people take up agriculture or any other business with the sole aim of making money money is the basis of life therefore one must have money in hand if money completely vanishes then the life becomes challenging and difficult therefore when we grow crops then we also aim to earn money.
That is we practise commercial agriculture this has been mentioned in RIG Veda that one must practice agriculture and earn his livelihood through agriculture but friends but we tend to commit mistakes for example this turmeric that i have grown in 1 acre of land should be of around3 lakhs or more in its monetary value from the same field i have taken maize.
Urad and now i will take Arhar and Wall crops along with turmeric so you see all these are site assets beside the main crop of turmeric so when we commit mistakes because of misinformation or because of lack of knowledge or experience by being guided by foolish people then often it happens that the targeted income is not achieved say for example if we take 2.5 lakhs of turmeric from an acre of land then from 10 acres we can have an estimated income of 25 lakhs thus i make a target before proceeding further.
Any other farmer would do the small business in the world are done with a target to achieve an estimated financial gaina business without estimated target income is doomed to be a failure so keeping target in mind one should be careful and avoid committing blunders of growing wrong types of crops in.
Mixed farming thus is
should never happen that we grow wrong crops along with the main crop thus
harming the main crop and incurring heavy losses the estimated target income
should never be compromised therefore with right scientific understanding one
must do agriculture.