Plantation 6

Ms. Sneha Kulkarni and Aditya Kulkarni donate 100 trees. We planted them on 12th December 2022 and 9th January 2023 along Rui-Kadbanwadi road. The water was supplied Sandeep Zagade and Popat Jagtap. Over the years we have now perfected our standard procedure for plantation. It has helped us to have near 100% survival of trees planted, robust growth of the trees as well as good protection at minimal cost. Most of our plantation has been on degraded land and broken rocks. We will be using this procedure for all future plantations. The steps are as follows.

1. Locate the land and request near by farmers to provide water for drip.
2. Make 70 cm-deep pits with 10 to 8 m distance inbetween. Fill back a15 cm of top soil. Then fill the pit with Ghana jeevamrut and agricultural waste (Pachut) as mulch about 30 cm deep.
3. The place the selected tree by removing the nursery plastic bag. Normally we select trees which are 3 to 4 years old and 5 to 6’ tall. Place a 2 to 3 m long bamboo stick. This is used as support to the planted sapling. Then fill up the pit with top soil removed from near by area. The stem at 2 or 3 places with sutali.
4. Place the drip line and nozzle near the stem and cover with gravel and stones removed during making the pit.

This model and SOP has worked out very well and yielded good results.