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) . . . 

Bringing in the sheaves

Today, on Easter morning, we harvested the wheat crop . . .

Snaps of the harvest . . 

We wait to thresh it and find the quantum of harvest . . . 

System of Wheat Intensification

As part of the CBA Project, we had started off doing demonstration plots in various crops since last October. In one small plot of approximately 70 square metres, we did wheat cultivation as per techniques used in System of Wheat Intensification. Abinash Biswal, one of our project staff took the leadership in doing it and he's put it in his blog. 

Snaps of the same . . . most of them taken by Mr. Thomas John, Co-ordinator, Climate Change, EHA. 

From left to right - Prabodh, Mahendar, Rajeev, Sr. Rita, Mathias, Dinesh, Amit William, Jeevan, Dr. Roshine, Ms. Meghala, Ebez, Rachel, Sheron, Abinash

A closer look

Beetroot

The champion plant - had 46 heads from a single plant