Category: Farmers’ Testimonies

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Karin Heschl’s Story – Radioactivity

Graz
Austria

radioactivity

When the Chernobyl nuclear accident happened in 1986, I was a Homa Therapy volunteer and had a farm near Graz in Austria. Immediately after the accident the Austrian Government issued instructions that every farmer had to carry milk and fodder for testing for radioactivity.

When I did this, the inspectors were shocked, because they found only normal radioactivity levels in my milk and fodder samples. The inspectors said it was not possible to have normal radioactivity after Chernobyl. They asked, ‘Is there anything special that you are doing on your farm?’ Continue reading “Karin Heschl’s Story – Radioactivity”

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Dora Betancour’s Story

Armenia, Quindio
Colombia, South America

“10 years ago I had a farm which was infested with coffee berry borer, an insect that attacks the coffee seed. I bought the farm hoping to live there and grow food in a self-sustaining manner, but I had very little hope.”

“So before building a house, I had a Homa Resonance Point installed with the Agnihotra and the Tryambakam huts and the resonance columns. Every day, I and the employees did Agnihotra and Tryambakam, sometimes up to 6 hours and 24 hours on a full moon and new moon.”

“The coffee began to change the foliage, the color and became shinier. The stems that had been sick began to have healthy sprouts. And the fruits of the coffee were no more infected with the berry borer. And although the coffee grew on a small piece of land, we had abundance.”

“People began to ask what was happening here, because even the farm next door started to improve and recover from the berry borer.”

(photo shows Mrs. Dora and Mr. Roberto under an annatto tree)

“A committee from the National Federation of Coffee Growers (Federacion Nacional de Cafeteros) came to see the farm and did a quality test of our coffee and asked me for how much I would sell it, because it was of very high quality. They bought my coffee about 6 times.”

“I also had avocado, banana, cabbage, carrots, lettuce, beets, and about 103 varieties of aromatic herbs with a place to dry them and it was beautiful. They never had any fungus. Everything grew with impressive ease. The wildlife was beautiful. The trees were visited by some birds, usually not seen in this region. We also saw animals like the sloth, hanging at the top of the tree. He visited us for 3 months and then suddenly disappeared and later we found him further down in the bamboo field. Those are things that do not happen usually on the farms and people in the region said that something special was going on here.”

“Purposely I did not use any synthetic agrochemicals. All irrigations were done with Agnihotra and Tryambakam ash. I put the ashes in large water tanks with a Yantram and the water was irrigated with sprinklers.”

“Later, after I sold the farm, I moved to a house that had a dry avocado tree in the courtyard. The first thing I did was lop all the dry thatch. It had no leaves, just branches, straw dry branches. Then I began to bathe the tree with Agnihotra ash water and took off lots of the parasitic moss which was eating up the tree. But this was done with the intention of planting a vine called “poet’s eye,” to make this corner of the house flourish. Then suddenly new avocado leaves started sprouting and today we have avocados from this tree. Although it is a very old tree it gives us avocados. I did not think it would recover.”

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Gopal Mehta’s Story

Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
India

apples
peaches

Gopal Mehta, a leading apple and stone-fruit orchardist, started experimenting with the environment-friendly mode of farming in the late 1990s in view of the rising cost of inputs and poor returns. Mehta, who is also the chairman of the Himachal Organic Farmers’ Association, maintains that the continuous use of chemical fertilisers and chemical sprays is doing more harm than good to the orchards of Himachal Pradesh.

The Mehta orchard is located near Shimla and the family have being practicing Homa Farming for 4 years. In this area, in the Himalayan Mountains, mainly apples, peaches and for some years also mangoes are being cultivated. The Mehta family has fruit trees: mangoes, apples, plums, peaches, lychees, cherries, etc. and also various kinds of vegetables like cauliflower, cabbage, carrots, beans, peas, tomatoes, eggplants, chilies, herbs, etc.

Here are some of the results they have observed with Homa farming:

  • All the fruits and vegetables have a better quality and exceptional taste.
  • The peaches have an extraordinary size and a foreign buyer recently remarked that he had never eaten such good peaches anywhere before.
  • Since the diseases and pests are controlled by Homa farming techniques, their harvest has increased compared to their neighbors’.
  • It was very remarkable that in a year where there were hardly any apples growing in the whole area, the Mehta family received almost the same amount of harvest as usual.
  • The mango trees of the neighbours suffered from some freezing cold nights while his mango trees did not show any damages.
  • People say that on their farm they are practicing ‘Homa magic’.
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Engineer Gilberto Navarro’s Story

Guayaquil, Ecuador
South America

tomatoes

Engineer Gilberto Navarro is Director of the Center of Organic Agriculture of the Government of the Province of Guayas, Ecuador.

“We decided to combine the technology of organic agriculture with the technology of Homa Farming when Maria de Belen Cajas, a University student, came for internship. She supplied the Agnihotra ash. She and her parents, the architects Alejandro and Estefania Cajas have been practising Agnihotra for many years.”
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Americo Perez’ Story

Tocache
Region: San Martín
Peru
South America

pedigree bull

A letter from cattle farmer, Americo Perez, to Engineer Sara Carrion Vega, the Director Of The Agrarian Agency – Tocache.
Tocache, 28th of April, 2000

Mrs. Directress:
I greet you very cordially through the present letter and at the same time take advantage of the opportunity to thank you so much, for the possibility given to me to work with an ecological and organic technique called Homa Therapy in the rearing of my cattle. In this technique no chemical substances or veterinary products are used. The results are wonderful and achieved in a very short time. It is really surprising, but the execution is very easy and most important, extremely economic.
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Edgar Arevalo Patow’s Story

Homa Farm: Three Sisters
Aucayacu, Huanuco Region, Peru
South America

After six months application of Homa Therapy – TOTAL REJUVENATION!

“Before starting to work with Homa Therapy, my situation, similar to the one of any peasant from the High Huallaga region, was of total despair and one which people do not understand: I thought I no longer had any resource to heal my crops, since I tried all chemical substances that the Government agency supplied to me. Nothing worked. Plagues and diseases continued, and the yield of the crops continued to diminish each time more and more.”
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Abhay Mutalik Desai – Sugarcane

Village: Sutagatti, District: Belgaum,
Karnataka, India

sugarcane
woolly aphid

  • In June 2005, our sugar cane was attacked by woolly aphid.

  • Attack resulted from use of impure ghee for Homas.
  • Attack was immediately controlled after replacing the faulty batch of ghee.
  • Two natural predators called Micromus igorotus and Dipha aphidivora, came automatically and controlled the infestation.
  • Interestingly, the predators started from the area where the woolly aphid had first appeared.
  • Now we have a lush, green, healthy sugar cane in our 20 acres farm and also in the neighboring farms.

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Mario Aguilar’s Story

Coquimbo
Chile
South America

avocado
lemon

“I have been practicing Agnihotra for twenty years together with my family and also the Om Tryambakam fire. Here are some of many experiences with Homa Therapy in agriculture:”

“My house has a patio area of fifteen meters and the land was so hard, that the pick or the hoe bounced off. In this patio I have a space of approximately three meter length where I now cultivate vegetables (sweet corn, beans, beets, broccoli, tomato, lettuce) using Agnihotra ash as a fertilizer. I put the ash in a cotton bag and let the hose with the water run through it. I also fumigate the plants with the Agnihotra ash water solution to avoid pests and diseases. I have one bed (1.5 sqm.) with parsley and one with cilantro (corriander). I treat them like you have to treat any other vegetables, but only fertilize them with Agnihotra ash and the production is so much, that I can share with my neighbours. Some of them also participate in Agnihotra and use the Agnihotra ash.”

“We have several trees, among them lemon, lúcuma, two custard apples, a fig tree, an olive tree and among them vegetable cultivations. I water them with Agnihotra ash and give each tree a little ash, so they do not need any other fertilization. For example the lúcuma tree is only two meters high, but I have to put logs under the branches, so heavy is the harvest. The lemon tree gives us lemons of the size of a tennis ball, the skin is thin and they are juicy and do not have seeds. The custard apple tree gives fruits of almost a kilo weight and of a size of a soccer ball. And the fig tree is incredible, if you eat one of them it is as if you had eaten lunch; they are almost of the size of an avocado and very juicy and sweet. All these things are benefits through the Agnihotra ash. Besides composting them with the ash I also powder them with the ash and practice continually Homa Therapy.”

“My friend, who has a lemon plantation told me that it is affected by the lice plague. I told him to spray Agnihotra ash water solution on them. After several months we meet again and he told me: The disinfectant you gave me against lice was very little and so I had to use some chemicals. The plants now are losing their leaves and are drying up. I told him, not to worry, that I have more Agnihotra ash to fumigate the trees. The next day we cut all the dry twigs and branches and fumigated with Agnihotra ash water solution, which I had prepared a few days ago for my own garden. Six or seven days after that the trees started to sprout again, it was as if the trees had never been sick, they had a special shine in their leaves and they had many flowers for future fruits, thanks to the Agnihotra ash water.”

“Another direct experience I had proves the efficacy of the Agnihotra ash for agricultural purposes. A friend had a lemon orchard of about 100sqm with one olive tree heavily attacked by a pest. We applied Agnihotra ash and the tree revived completely. We also put the ash on the surrounding trees to prevent the spreading of the pest. Once more the ash proved its power in healing and prevention.”

“Another very good experience was with an avocado plantation. They are very delicate, even a strong wind can break the branches and the tree is prone to contract any disease. One afternoon I passed by a friend and he showed me their orchard. I noticed the leaves yellowish. I explained him Agnihotra and the use of the ash, but he said he cannot risk anything, since he has made a huge investment on this land. So I proposed that he leave 4 lines of trees for me and my treatment and the other 40 or 50 were his. I said, that I would harvest more in those 4 lines, than him in the rest, in proportion to the land. So we did it. My wife, my friend and I did Agnihotra on three different spots, we also did a couple of hours Tryambakam daily beside treating the trees with ash powder, fumigating them with the ash solution and giving them ash fertilizer (Tryambakam ash). After a short time already we could see, that the avocado trees became the same shiny and healthy leaves as the plants inside our house. The plants treated with agro chemicals showed yellowish leaves and did not look well at all, so that he finally decided to go completely Homa. Well, we never have anymore a shortage of Avocados in our home, our friend keeps supplying us. Things like this can happen anywhere, where Agnihotra, the science of resonance, is used. The results are really optimal.”

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Tejasvi Naik’s Story

Village: Modaga, District: Belgaum
Karnataka, India

Sericulture

“I started doing Agnihotra in my green house and in a few weeks time it showed results. First the birds moved in; then came the predators to destroy the attack of whiteflies on gerbera plants in the green house. The Resonance Point was then set up and from then on there was no stopping us. Results flowed one after the other. Here are some of my experiences which I want to share with you.”

“In the first three months of starting Agnihotra on the farm, I noticed a lot of birds in the farm. They fed on pests in the green house and also later made my farm their home and started nesting giving a new generation of birds. Distinctly visible are the greater coucal (bharadwaj), asian koel, parrots, love birds, owls, sparrows, crows, cranes, wood pecker, pigeons, bulbuls, babblers, fly catchers, robins, baya weaver, kingfishers, mynas, and lots more and in pairs.”

“Once all of a sudden, I noticed a hundred odd garden lizards on the casuarina trees adjoining the green house. I failed to understand this phenomenon. I also killed one as it was entering my sericulture rearing shed mistakenly thinking that they had arrived to eat the silk worms. Few days passed and then all of them disappeared. The lady worker reported that day “all gerbera plants are free from white fly attack.” No white fly, No garden lizards? Such was the effect of Agnihotra.”

“My sericulture crops which suffered due to diseases gradually improved. Last two years there have been NO crop failures. Agnihotra?”

“Leaf quality, size of leaf improved tremendously and it showed on the yield/acre. Agnihotra indeed.”

“In the last one year I have regularly obtained 80kg per 100 dfls (disease-free layings). That is 30% more than the state’s average and 20% higher than any good sericulturist. More Agnihotra!”

“Powdery Mildew is a common pest on mulberry leaf. But my farm is free from it by the presence of the Lady bird beetle (Scymnus nubilus) which are in abundance acting as a natural predator. It is also found in larger quantities in the garden adjoining the Agnihotra kutir. No mealy bugs too. Unbelievable Agnihotra.”

“Number of earthworms in the farm has increased and you can see herds of millipedes. I don’t know what they are doing there. Men at work? Agnihotra???”

“I have reports from the CSB (Central Silk Board) that in one of the crops of hybrid silkworms, (csr2 X csr4), the pairing was so great that it yielded 62g eggs/100 cocoons as against the average being 26g and a good yield is around 40g. Amazing Effect. Agnihotra”

“In my latest crop, the pupa was so full of vigour and vitality. The scientist at the grainage at CSB’s Malavalli unit informed that there will be three pairings taken from each of the male moths. Average is one pairing and good being two. Result is awaited on the actual performance. Agnihotra all the way.”

“My cocoons are purchased instantly in the auction fetching better rates. Reelers have expressed higher silk content in my cocoons, so they bid for a higher price. Shortly I will be having a tie up with a quality reeler from Sirsi for reeling Cocoons and with Malavalli grainage for my seed cocoons. Customer confidence made possible by Agnihotra results.”

“During the time when woolly aphid attacked sugarcane crop, my neighbour informed me it was visible that his 2 acre sugarcane was unaffected when the whole village had the problem. No boundaries for Agnihotra.”

“No labour problems. Brilliant ideas in allocating jobs with responsibilities, ensuring quality work. Harmony and vision through Agnihotra?”

“My Manager who does the regular Agnihotra on the farm and also consumes the ash has his Diabetes well in control. You will not believe that I use only Agnihotra ash as antiseptic for all cuts and bruises. No Dettol please! Found the healer!! Agnihotra the saviour!!!”