"R. Santhanam" <rsanthanam_delhi@...> wrote:
21 December 2005

Dear Shri. Pankaj Oudhia,

Re message No 3 on Parthenium, thanks your posting and the web site.

It can be treated as a weed. If we follow Masanobu Fukuoka's organic
farming concepts, weeds can be used beneficially. However we can
strike a practical via media between different advocacies.TNAU has
done some work on feeding water hyacinth to vermi compost piles to
create a rich manure. Similarly Biosanitiser developed by Dr. Uday
Bhawalkar can be used to compost such weeds. If the soil and water
are carrying more salts than healthy or if they are laden with
undesirable salts, then weeds appear. A healthy soil does not sprout
weeds a is known to most farmers/gardners. Hence instead of burning
he weeds and thereby polluting the air, we can compost it with
biosanitiser treated water. This will then become a biomass resource.



Sincerely,

R. Santhanam
-- In IPRNG@..., "Pankaj Oudhia" <pankajoudhia@i...>
wrote:
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> Strategy for Parthenium Management from the Parthenium Action Group-
> Indian Experience.
>
> This research paper is available online at
>
> http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=earticleView&earticleId=734&page=-2
>
>
> regards
> Pankaj Oudhia
>