The Wheat Harvest

It was only couple of days back I realised that I had not shared about the yield we got from the cultivation of wheat by System of Wheat Intensification in our campus. 

Few snaps of the threshing process . . . 

About the total yield, we got 31 kilograms from 70 square metres of cultivation. Considering that 1 hectare is 10,000 square metres, we calculated the yield per hectare as 4.4 tonnes per hectare. 

Now, this is very high yield for this region. From casual talk with farmers, they hardly get more than 2 tonnes per hectare. Now, the variety we used was a local variety and there was not much of fertilizers of any form used. Many of our laborers were amazed by the seed size and density. 

Next year, we plan System of Crop Intensification for Ragi (Finger Millet) . . . 

Photo blog, May 3, 2014

The histopathology report of the huge ovarian tumour that we operated on couple of weeks back.
We've few friends who have promised to help out with the chemotherapy of this poor lady.
We would need help of some more people . . . 

A langer and her baby through one of the skylights . . .  

A rod cutting machine which was donated by one of our well-wishers.
This job would take about 30 minutes if done manually.
With the machine, the same amount of work takes just about 2 minutes . . . 

The above two snaps - - - vegetables from our farm . . .

One of the water handpumps that we facilitated Living Waters to dig in one of our neighboring villages . . .

An improvised water tumbler in our maintenance department

The setting sun . . .