Category: India

Here everything is in good progress. We are sending you some pictures of the vegetables from our little HOMA ORGANIC GARDEN in Amalner city, Maharashtra which is in the dry land region of Central India where temperatures reach up to 48 degrees in summer.

We planted vegetables like lady finger, two different types of gourd, beans, lemons, etc. We do daily sunrise & sunset Agnihotra & regularly some Om Trambakam Homa.

We are also giving the Agnihotra ash & Homa ash regularly to the plants and we are getting beautiful results. The food quality & quantity is really surprising. In the picture you can see the vegetables. We harvest every 2 to 3 days and even though the plot is small, we get enough for our family of 4 and other people who know about our organic Homa garden come to buy our vegies because of their taste and quality. We are sending much love to everyone.

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’.

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.

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!!!”

Homa Farm: Tapovan
Parola, District: Jalgaon
Maharashtra, India

sodic soil

• In Tapovan when we first started Homa Farming the soil was seriously deficient in all the major and minor nutrients.
• There was high salinity.
• Topsoil layer reduced to less than 5 cm (2 inches) in parts.

Continue reading “Sanjay Patil’s Story”

Homa Farm: Manas Krushi
Shahapur, District: Thane
Maharashtra, India

mango
cashew nut

“We came across Gurudev Shree Vasant Paranjpe between 1998 and 1999. From our discussions with Him, we realized that the cow is an important part in farming and this is the reason why the cow has been given an important place in our scriptures and culture. Another point we found out from Him was that for healthy farming the environment should be healthy and to achieve this a simple procedure of Agnihotra is advised. If we use the correct combination of cow and Agnihotra then we can achieve the same result in farming as our forefathers enjoyed.”

Continue reading “Venkatesh Kulkarni’s Story”

Ooty, District: Nilgiri
Tamil Nadu, India

tea

“We used to have several types of infection in our tea garden, ranging from fungal to bacterial to various types of pests. In addition, when the tea bushes were pruned to the roots, the new sprouting leaves were infected by pests which used to curl the leaves and we used to lose a lot of good leaves.”

“Since we started doing Homa Therapy and applying Biosol made with Agnihotra ash, our tea leaves are without infection. We have not had any crop loss due to pests or disease. We pruned our bushes recently and there has been no infection at all. The new leaves are green and lush. All tea leaves have a healthy sheen (glow). The leaves remain fresh even hours after picking. And the quality of leaves has improved greatly!”

“Our silver oak trees which give shade to tea plants, have almost doubled in girth (circumference) in the past two years and seem to attract a lot of queries from timber merchants, much to our amusement. To everyone’s surprise, our silver oak trees have also started flowering! No one here seems to have seen such flowers before! All these are very encouraging changes.”

Our Green Tea Liquor
We have also started producing manually green tea liquor (extract of green tea, does not contain alcohol), which we receive from our garden and it is found to be top class by all who have tasted this liquor. We get golden green liquor without any bitter taste and it is taken preferably without any sugar, honey or similar sweeteners. It is a labor intensive method of producing tea. We enrich it additionally with herbs which we grow on our Homa farm. Our health has improved a great deal and we are always at peace and content.”

Flower Garden
“We also have a flower garden where we grow several kinds of plants. Due to use of Homa Therapy and the Agnihotra ash, the colors of the flowers are deeper and brighter and they attract many kinds of birds and butterflies. The number of birds in our garden and their variety and seems to grow every day.”

“We also discovered by chance that wilting plants revive when fed with Agnihotra ash water. Nowadays, whenever we make a new cutting for planting, we soak the cutting in Agnihotra ash water for several hours and then plant them. The new leaves sprout faster and establish roots more easily.”

“Our ornamental flower trees started showing flowers already in their first year and that has surprised a lot of people, including our workers.”

“There was one more tree whose name we don’t know and which grew from a small cutting to about 3.5 meters tall in one year and produced a crown full of flowers (see photo left). Another cutting of this was planted by us in a pot and then was passed on to my wife’s sister who lives about 8 Kms from our house. It grew to about 0.5 meter at the end of one year and there were no flowers.”

“We also noticed that the water retention of the soil in the entire garden has increased and even when there are heavy rains, we have no water runoff and no soil erosion.”

Plants react to Homa Therapy
“More than anything, the most noticeable feature of our tea garden is the overwhelming feeling of happiness, as if the plants are trying to reach out to us telling us how happy they are.”