Friday, March 18, 2011

EM controls pollution caused by pig farms

The news from Malaysia.

"RM200mil pig farm project shelved "

To see the news, click the link below.

http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2011/3/18/central/8275024&sec=central

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

International Workshop in Saraburi, Thailand!

We hold International Workshop on Kyusei Nature Farming and EM technology in Saraburi, Thailand 21st-24th February 2011.
In this workshop, 57 participants from 15 countries were attended!!!
Our next workshop will be hold July 2011.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Model farm in Cambodia


During 10 – 11 November 2010, Mr Kanit Muangnil, Senior Managing Director of Saraburi Kyusei Nature Farming Training Centre and APNAN were called to fly to the Royal Kingdom of Cambodia, in order to discuss with Japanese NGO named SAJ (School Aid Japan) which has Organic Farm in Kampongchanang province in Cambodia. The Organic Farm has just started its operation with 12.6 ha. It should be designed as the integrated farming model, which demonstrates how sustainable agriculture can be done with the concept of Nature Farming and EM Technology.

The main objective of the organic farm managed by SAJ is to grow organic product in order to supply enough amount of food and create new employment opportunity for the local community.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

EM cleaned a fish pond in India


In Midnapore district, West Bengal, EM was just introduced to fish cultivation.A farmer was facing a problem of diseases of fish because of water pollution. He tried to apply EM to the pond, and found the less algae and no more diseases.Now he is applying 40L of Activated EM to the pond(about 7500 cubic meter) once a week.

Near side: EM treated pond with less algae
Far side: Untreated pond

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

An EM activity in Nepal

Help and Care is a NGO which is promoting EM Technology to farmer group to improve the productivity of agriculture in about 20 districts in Nepal.
In Sindhu Palchok district, which is 3 hours away from Kathmandu, a group of 17 farmers are using EM for rice, vegetable, fruit cultivation and live stocks.
EM is mixed in drinking water for goat and cow(dilution, 1:100), and then animal dung is treated with EM spraying(dilution, 1:20).
This EM treated compost is applied to field and EM dilution is applied before planting(dilution, 1:20 ) and for regular foliar spray(dilution, 1:20).

The effect of EM in this region
-Less disease of cow and goat
-Less odor in the stall
-Better growth of crops

Monday, August 16, 2010

EM Forum Asia 2010

Syntropy Malaysia and PSDC(Penang Skills Development Center) organized EM forum Asia 2010 in Penang, Malaysia on 7th 2010.

Please visit http://www.psdc.org.my/html/sub_programs.aspx?ID=1076&PID=1079 to download the presentation materials!!

Thursday, July 1, 2010

APNAN Workshop 2010 June

APNAN held its usual international workshop from 21st to 24th June, at the Sara Buri Nature Farming Training Center. This was attended by 31 pariticipants, from 5 nations- namely Myanmar Bhutan Singapore New Zealand and Malaysia.

The workshop had the usual program - After opening ceremony. APNAN staff explained the concepts of Nature Farming and EM Technology. Thereafter, a practical session on EM liquids was demonstrated and practiced. That night, the participants presented their EM activities, which went on even on the second night on the farm. The participants were enthusiastic and were keen to gather as much information as possible.

This was a very good sign - and lots of useful information was exchanged.

The participants also had lots of practice in making EM liquides such as EMAS, EM5 EMFPE EMRW and EM bokashi. Thereafter the participants and the trainers from APNAN prepared plots for cultivation, in the real Nature Farming was and also sprayed EM FPE to diseased plants.

We at APNAN thank all the participants for this lively workshop - and if you do visit Thailand, please do come to Sara Buri again - we will be happy to meet you. We have also uploaded some photographs of the workshop.

We now know you and you know us - Please co contact us at anytime. we will try to help.