Age old practice for today and tomorrow – use of coir for agriculture in Asia
Tropical countries have a blessing, Coconut. Not only to consume, but a tree where the whole part of the tree was used for one purpose or the other. Long before inorganic interventions were in place, natural farming advocated products and by-products that were available in nature as resources for cultivation.
In hot tropics, availability of water is a challenge and for crops like rice, water retention of soil decides the yield. With high temperatures during the day, water was always inadequate. Coir was the natural choice, the pith could hold as much of 10 times its weight, which improved water retention at the roots drastically. Since it is organic and natural, there is no question of any implications or any other depletion in soil quality, instead it decomposes and improves aeration, nutrition and soil quality.
Despite advancements in scientific agricultural practices, coir is still irreplaceable by any other product. Coir is nature given, completely organic, time tested age old practice that is still in vogue.
In hot tropics, availability of water is a challenge and for crops like rice, water retention of soil decides the yield. With high temperatures during the day, water was always inadequate. Coir was the natural choice, the pith could hold as much of 10 times its weight, which improved water retention at the roots drastically. Since it is organic and natural, there is no question of any implications or any other depletion in soil quality, instead it decomposes and improves aeration, nutrition and soil quality.
Despite advancements in scientific agricultural practices, coir is still irreplaceable by any other product. Coir is nature given, completely organic, time tested age old practice that is still in vogue.
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