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

Farming at NJH

Since the last 3 months, we had been doing a bit of farming on the land we had received as a donation from Sr. Masih. The initial efforts has been a mixed experience. Snaps of the same . . . 

That's our damaged potato field . . . The cold ensured that almost all the plants dried off . . . However, we got about 40 kilograms of produce. 

The mustard field . . .

Another view of the potato field . . .

The tomato plant section

Spinach . . . and wheat (done by System of Wheat Intensification

And look here . . .  who's coming . . . 

The potato field being ploughed to plant the next crop . . .