Our consultancy and training services currently include the following areas :
Consultancy
- Biodynamics (including making BD 500, BD 501, CPP and various liquid manures)
- Effective Microorganisms (EM)
- Homa farming : we teach homa farming techniques free of charge. We are in the process of preparing a free electronic booklet on the subject, requests for which can be sent to free-homa@satavic.org Hence, if homa is all you wish to learn, we will be glad to send you the free booklet by email but will not be able to offer on-farm consultancy. Please read the homa farming page on our website to know more in the meantime
- Panchakavya
- Integrated farming systems
- Vermicomposting, including low-cost methods
- Composting methods, including improved methods and enrichment
- System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
- Coir pith composting
- On-farm production of biopesticides, biofertilisers and liquid manures
- Planning on basic permaculture principles
- On-farm low-cost processing of produce
- Humane animal husbandry (only milk and eggs, no culling or slaughter)
- Conversion of a chemical farm to organic
- Organic certification process
- Soil fertility improvement and maintenance using a combination of techniques
- Sheet mulching
- Mulching
- Green manuring and green leaf manuring
- Live fencing
- Soil and water conservation
- Intercropping, multi-cropping and crop rotation
- Trees and agro-forestry
- Biogas (as part of an integrated system only)
- Nutrition / home gardens
- Wasteland development
We also manage and/or advise farms and compost units on a holistic basis, where the above technologies as well as many others are undertaken by us. Please call us or write to consult@satavic.org to know more.
To know more about our services for farmhouses, home gardens, homesteads and private rural retreats, please click here
Training
Please call us or write to consult@satavic.org to know more about our training programmes.
For information on our services for farmhouses, home gardens, homesteads and private rural retreats, please click here.