Organic manure's

GOOD Morning, you lovely people of Bohol , You are really nice to know. Honesty must be woven into the fabric of our character if we are to have an effective. Testimony for Christ. Even the secular world recognizes the importance of integrity. A promising young man applied for a job at a bank. The president was impressed with his credentials. So we invited him to lunch with the staff. As they went through the cafeteria line, the young man put two pats of butter on his tray and covered them with his plate. The president, who was behind him, observed his actions. If this fellow would be dishonest with two pats of butter, he thought, how could he be trusted in a tellers window. Right there the president decided not to hire him. Deception takes many forms, whether an outright verbal lie, or a cover-up of two pats of butter, which amounts to steering.

Lets pause for a moment: Lord help me to be honest in all I do and say. Go, grant me grace and power to live for you today a person of integrity has nothing to hide.

Our topic: While the emphasis is placed on fertilizers for increasing production, wherever possible organic manure's such as cattle, pig, poultry manure's from intensive poultry farms, rice, straw and hull and other organic wastes material should be applied to the soil, rather than used as fuel ornasted. Farmyard manure's provide trace elements or alternatively holds elements such as phosphorus and sulfur in organic form for slow liberation and prevent the phosphate being made unavailable. Besides the main nutrients very striking crop responses and residual effects have been obtained with farmyard manure's in the tropics.

Various trials have shown that one ton of farmyard manure per year, applied yearly or alternate years or even five ton every five years will maintain soil fertility under continuous cultivation once the fertility of the soil has been built up. The effect of the organic matter in increasing the rainfall receptivity of the soil may be an important factor in maintaining oil fertility. Higher rates will be needed on poorer soils and are desirable for crops such as cereals and root crops -yams, sweet potatoes, bananas and soyabean that benefit particularly from F.YM. the low percentages of the nutrients applied to the soil which are recovered in the crop suggests that this method of application in inefficient. But striking results are obtained with the minor elements when sprayed on to plant leaves to correct deficiencies and the amount needed as a spray is only a fraction of the dosage require for soil application.

Phosphate which is rapidly fixed by many tropical soils, is an elements that could possibly be applied more efficiently by a foliar spray. Elements that are required in larger amounts at various times in the crop development are difficult to supply in a single spray, but in certain crops like tea, soyabean, bananas and coffee, regular fungicide sprays are applied to which nutrients can be added. Urea is a useful form of nitrogen to apply as a foliar spray, as it is very soluble in water, non-corrosive, non-tonic and therefore less liable to cause leaf scorch, it is also compatible with many standard insecticides. And fungicides and their added wetting agents, and is easily absorbed by the leaves.

In Asia , foliar applications of urea with copper fungicide and when necessary an insecticide, are applied with mist blowers. The leaf size is considerably increased, and the yield response are very profitable. Fertilizer sprays incorporating the major were tried on various crops and while some growers were convinced of their value, others obtained no visible response. Urea is largely absorbed through the under surface of the leaves.

The most reasonable approach is to use whatever organic manure's are available and to supplement these with chemical fertilizers as and when required without manufacturer fertilizers, regardless of what is said, it would be impossible at the present time to maintain the high level of agricultural production that is required. Well, growers and friend, I hope this has been of some value to you. Take care, see you next week.