Building a new India: Life for the land (196?).

as man breathes and takes food for nourishment and as he grows old and weary from work so does the land here the rice yield from this tiny farm was a little less teacher down through the years the centuries these few acres meant life itself to the men who worked it and now to come down and his family who are of this time but the once productive soil was worn out and undernourished too much had been taken from it too little put back in and the soil was starving a little more with each harvest the story of Camden's land is repeated on farms in all parts of India it is the tragic story of Richland worked too hard for too long a time of land drained of its nitrogen content on which the growing things feed and drain to of organic matter the human by which the earth drinks and breathes and nourishes itself but these tired lands of India are not hopelessly warner nor is the land of condom in his neighbor under the central and states government's new community development program recently put into operation with technical assistance from the United States renewal of the soil by the use of fertilizers is a vital part of a campaign to grow more food a vital part of the effort to achieve self-sufficiency for India under the five-year plan the district in which Canton lived was studied by agricultural expert seeking ways to increase perry crops and then a trained agricultural inspector named sivaraman made laboratory tests of the soil to determine what it needed soon after as Captain and his neighbors were threshing the grain from their scanty harvest he came to them with a message of hope the message which will soon be brought to thousands of Indian villages under the new program Sivaraman offered to aid the villagers in restoring their lands to good health then fertility he began his work at once in kundan's field he looked at the soil and he looked at the poor arrived and said that the things which the soil left nitrogen and Juma's could be found right in the village the plant foods which nourished the right Jets to the rice nourishes you are in the leaves of the trees over there and they are in the excretions of your bullets those foods are in all the refuse of your village then he showed them one thing more those foods are also in the green manure crop which grows from the seed he said I shall stay with you in the village and teach you how these fertilizers are used when the threshing was completed the villagers under Seaver amans guidance work cooperatively on the program to give life back to the left first the green when your seeds were planted near the village pond and on the roads wherever there was a patch of Earth lying idle but mainly the seeds were planted in a nursery a lot of them for much green manure would be needed and there they were left to grow to seedlings next come down in his neighbor's duck compost pits at the edge of the village into them when decaying met up in the pond rich in nitrogen and leaves in dead grass which were dropped and make you must refuse of all kind litter was spread under tethered animals and that litter after it became saturated would hasten the decomposition of the bulky matter in the pits Cowden was needed for fuel but kundan talked to his wife and for the first time carefully allotted half of the supply of her users compost when the pits became full they were covered with good cleaner to keep flies from breeding there and then were left to decompose until the time came to work the compost into the soil when the seeds of the greenman your plants had grown to seedlings Sivaraman shotgun done and his neighbors how to transplant them to the buns bordering their teddy fields their work was going well the crops would be better but Sivarama knew that the ravages of generations could not be mended in a season or in two seasons with compost and green manure health would return slowly to the worn-out sort cv raman congratulated the villagers on the industry and preparing compost in green mignon but there is still another way to improve your crops he showed the villagers a sample of ammonium sulfate but chemical from the big new fertilizer planted sindri in the state of the heart this will be magic in your soil the compost in green manual gives strength to the land the ammonium sulfate will give quit fertility but we have no money to buy the fertilizers cv raman explained that the sindri plant is owned and operated by the government without profits then they could borrow the fertilizer itself for use on the next paddy crop and then repay the loan in cash after the hops I have seen the syndra plant sativa Rama each day it can produce 1,000 tons of the ammonium sulfate fertilizer each day enough fertilizer for hundreds of farms like yours Camden farms all over India farms growing all kinds of crops to enrich your few acres we would need the production of less than a minute from syndrome the production of less than a minute sindri means much to our country in her battle for self-sufficiency it is the biggest factory of its kind in all asia and the tons of fertilizer which this plant is manufacturing will make growth tons of extra food for our people at full capacity the scenery plant will produce three lakh 50,000 tons of ammonium sulphate each year and soon with American assistance under the new agreements with the Indian government the density will be enlarged you small farmers or the benefactors continued Sivarama this great plant was built for your needs before sindri we Indians had to import almost all our commercial fertilizers they were dear to deer for the small farmer like you but now you can afford to buy them in simple terms if arrahman described for the villagers the difficult chemical processes in the making of ammonium sulphate our coke in enormous quantities is rated in from the nearby they're coalfields then how ammonia is taken off from guesses generated from the burning curve and he told them how gypsum is brought across the country from far-off rajasthan and how the sulfate is extracted from it and how the final chemical processes make ammonium sulfate the finished product which the farmers use on their land to operate such a vast and complex plant requires the most advanced technical knowledge set sivaraman there has been some engineering assistance from Americans and Britain's but sindri otherwise is completely stopped by Indian personnel men you have been carefully trained for the highest position and also described how the fertilizer stepped into dude pegs and made ready for shipment to all parts of the country each bag he said would bring some small measure of prosperity to the farmer who used just a few of those bags from sindri the production of less than a minute will be needed on your land Camden and just a few more of those bags will add fertility to all the village acres this would be a good investment for your village sivaraman concluded the men were pleased they liked and trusted Sivarama kundan was their spokesman we shall accept the fertilizers alone he said in time the green manure plants grew tall on the buns of the village fields they were ready now and sivaraman showed the farmers how the plant should be cut and he showed them how to spread the cuttings on the surface of the flooded paddy fields about 4,000 pounds of them to the acre next kundan and his neighbors removed the now rotted compost from the pits this was a busy time everyone in the village help prepare the soil for planting the compost to was spread evenly over the fields then the green manure cuttings and the rich decayed matter of the compost fits were trampled into the earth here was the food the nitrogen in the humors which the famished soil needed as he worked Sivaraman explained to Condon that this was only one way of using green manure and only one of the many kinds of green manure here there was plenty of water and the green cuttings could be worked directly into the soil you are lucky he said in dry areas the Greenmen your first had to decay in compost pits before being applied to the lab and in many parts of India the Green Man your seed is sown on the fields themselves and plowed under between grain crops pressed into the wetter the green manure rotted rapidly then a few days later come down in his neighbor's set out seedlings for their new paddy crop the land was nourished and the growing pedi was nourished kundan's harvest became the best in his memory the fertilizers all of them compost green manure ammonium sulfate mint new life for the land belonging to the min of condoms village and on the land their lives depended condens village is just one in many thousands but the harvests of other villagers over the whole of India will be richer as working together with Goodman like Sivaraman they learn improved methods of agriculture in fertilization under the village improvement program there will be more food for India and their lives will be more prosperous as the people of the land work to build a self-sufficient nation