Organic Farm at The Dune

Dune Organic Farm Managed by

Annadana Soil & Seed Savers

Location •

The DUNE is an eco-friendly resort , located at 15 km from Pondicherry.

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It has a 700 meters sea front exposure to the Bay of Bengal.

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It covers over 35 acres of land with 52 aesthetic bungalows, villas and rooms, playground, swimming pool, organic restaurant and sea food bar, open all through the year.

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The restaurant and sea food bar serves healthy gourmet fusion food, The in-situ 7 acres Organic farm produce highly nutritious organic fresh vegetables, rice, millets, pulses, fruits and milk .

Organic Farm

Sea food bar

Restaurant

Bay of Bengal

Sustainable Organic Farm Over-view

Paddy land Farm shed Waste water system Cow shed (Dairy) Compost yard Vermi-compost yard Vegetable Garden Poultry shed Cow grass Dryland crops Fruit crops Pine apple Banana Coconut intercropping

Crops produced are 1. Wetland - Rice - Green manure - Pulses (Cow pea & Black gram)

2. Dryland - Groundnut ( peanut) - Pearl Millet ( cumbu) - Finger Millet ( Ragi) - Foxtail Millet (Thennai) - Green manure

3. Garden land - Tomato - Brinjal - Capsicum - Chilli - Squash - Cucumber - Watermelon - Salad - Rukula - Amaranth - Gourds (snake, bitter & bottle) - Carrot - Radish - Corn - Basil - Beans - Bhendi - Flowers - Sunflower - Corriander

Soil Fertility Management

1. Green Manure(GM)

4. Botanical cakes

2. Compost

5. Organic Growth Promoter 6. Mulching

3. Bio-Charcoal

7. Crop rotation

Green manuring 1. Wet land Green manuring technique. Green manure are grown prior to crop cultivation to enriched the soil. Those plant are plowed into the soil.

Daincha seeds

Sunhemp seeds

Daincha

Sunhemp

Cowpea seeds

Cowpea

5 Days after sowing

25 Days after sowing

15 Days after sowing

35 Days after sowing

45 Days after sowing

Green manure incorporation

OGP spraying

10 Days after GM incorporation

2. Garden land Green manuring technique

Green manure sowing

5 Days after sowing

15 Days after sowing

25 Days after sowing

35 Days after sowing

OGP application

GM incorporation

Covering GM with soil for decomposition and soil fertilization

Compost & Composting Composting is the recycling of farm residues into organic fertilizers

Green layer - weeds

Dry layer – Coir pith

Botanical cake application

OGP inoculation

Cow dung layer

½ built compost pile

Âź built compost pile

Fully built compost pile

Final layer - Covering compost pile by soil

Fully built compost pile

Ready compost after 3 month or 90 days after 2 turning

Bio-Charcoal

Charcoal store nutrients and release them slowly as plants need

Bio-charcoal in pieces

Ready bio-charcoal

Soak the bio-charcoal in OGP prior usage

Bio-charcoal used while GM incorporation / pit preparation

Botanical cakes

Oil cakes residues possess natural bio pesticides property

Pongam cakes

Neem cake

Organic Growth Promoters

OGP are natural farm preparation witch boost plant immunity and productivity

Panchagavya

Amirthakaraisal

Fish meal extract

Mulching

Mulching conserve moisture and reduce extreme temperature

Paddy / Rice •Wetland crop, cultivated in 2 Season •Samba season (Aug to Dec) & Navarai season( Jan to April) •Samba – medium duration crop of 110-120 days •Navarai – Short duration crop of 90-100 days •Seed treatment & seedling dip with free living bacterial bio-fertilizer • System of Rice Intensification(SRI)/ Transplant 16-18 days old seedling •SRI Irrigation, no flooding but alternate wet and dry irrigation until flowering •2 Weeding at 30 and 60 days after transplanting •Basal application of 5-6 ton compost and 40 kg botanical cake for main field preparation & 25 kg botanical cake after weeding.

•OGP spraying 2 time as soil application and 4 times as foliar application after transplanting •If recommended bio-plant extract is prepared and applied to control pest and disease.

Paddy seed for sowing

Sowing in the nursery bed

Bacterial bio-fertilizer seed treatment

Covering the seed with compost

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Irrigate the nursery

10 days after sowing

Germination after 7 days

15 -18 days seedling ready for transplanting

Single seedling transplanting at 30 x 30 cm spacing per hill

10 days after transplanting

20 days after transplanting

Vegetative stage

Tillering and flowering stage

Panicle initiation and maturity stage

Grain maturation and harvesting

Groundnut / Peanut •Dry land crop, cultivated from December to March •Seed treatment with free living bacterial bio-fertilizer •2 Weeding at 30 and 60 days after sowing •Basal application of 5-6 ton compost and 40 kg botanical cake for main field preparation & 25 kg botanical cake after weeding.

•OGP spraying 2 time as soil application and 4 times as foliar application after transplanting

Gr.nut seed for sowing

Bacterial bio-fertilizer seed treatment

Shade dry the seeds before sowing

Peanut seeds sowing

Germinated peanut seeds

Vegetative stage

Reproductive stage

Pod maturity stage

Peanut harvesting

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Pod separation and drying stage

Ragi / Finger millet •Dry land crop, cultivated from November to February and May to August •Cultivated in 2 way: - direct sowing by broadcasting the seeds in rain fed condition and - raised in nursery & transplanted in irrigated conditions.

•2 Weeding at 30 and 60 days after sowing or transplanting •Basal application of 5-6 ton compost and 40 kg botanical cake for main field preparation & 25 kg botanical cake after weeding.

•OGP spraying 2 time as soil application and 4 times as foliar application after transplanting

Ragi seeds for sowing

Sowing ragi seeds in the nursery

Covering the seeds by compost

Ragi seed germination

Watering the nursery

Ragi seedling transplanting

Transplanted main field

Vegetative stage

Reproductive stage

Ragi harvesting

Harvested ragi and grain separation

Thennai / Foxtail Millet •Dry land crop, cultivated from November to February and March to June •Cultivated in 2 way: - direct sowing by broadcasting the seeds in rain fed condition and - raised in nursery & transplanted in irrigated conditions.

•2 Weeding at 30 and 60 days •Basal application of 5-6 ton compost and 40 kg botanical cake at main field preparation & 25 kg botanical cake after weeding.

•OGP : 2 Soil application and 4 foliar spray after transplanting

Thennai seeds for sowing

Direct sowing/ broadcasting Thennai seeds

Vegetative stage

Reproductive stage

Harvesting

Thrashing and seed separation

Garden land - Vegetables

Nursery Preparation and Seed Sowing

Nursery irrigation and aftercare protection

Germinated seeds in the nursery beds

Direct sowing, irrigation and germinated seeds

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Germinated corn, cucumuber, bhendi and gourds

Bio-diversity of tomatoes

Bio-diversity of tomatoes

Bio-diversity of tomatoes

Bio-diversity of capsicum

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Bio-diversity of capsicum

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Bio-diversity of brinjal

Bio-diversity of bhendi / okra

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Bio-diversity of watermelon

Bio-diversity of lettuces

Bio-diversity of lettuces

Bio-diversity of sweet corn

Bio-diversity of sweet and popcorn

Bio-diversity of long cow pea

Bio-diversity of Amaranth

Bio-diversity of bitter gourd

Bio-diversity of bottle gourd & snake gourd

Bio-diversity of radish

Bio-diversity of basil

Bio-diversity of squash and pumpkin

Bio-diversity of cucumber

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Bio-diversity of muskmelon

Fruit crops

Banana

Pineapple

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Papaya

Cow grass

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Cow grass

Vermi Compost

Vermi Compost

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Vermi Compost

Milking Cow

Poultry – Layer chicken

Duck & Rabbit rearing

For further enquiries, contact us at : The Dune, Eco Village & Spa, Pudhukuppam, Keelputhupet, (via Pondicherry university), Tamil Nadu - 605014, India.

Phone : Ph: (+91) 413 2655751, (+91) 413 3244040, (+91) 9364455440, Fax: (+91) 413 2656351. www.thedunehotel.com

For more information on farming log on to our website Annadana Seed Bank, Auroville Botanical Garden Auroville, Villupuram Dist, Tamilnadu – 605101.

E-mail : seedbank@annadana.com Phone : 0413 262 2667 www.annadana.com