{"id":6881,"date":"2014-03-04T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T08:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2014-03-04T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T08:27:11","slug":"azolla-demonstration-cum-cultivation-at-marvanthe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/azolla-demonstration-cum-cultivation-at-marvanthe\/","title":{"rendered":"Azolla demonstration cum cultivation at Marvanthe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 On the 27<sup>th<\/sup> of January, 2014, our <strong>Home Based Project<\/strong> (HBP) in Kundapur guided a farmer, Mr. Shankar (a member of the Dairy Cooperative Society) at Marvanthe to prepare an Azolla cultivation pit. Azolla is an algae species that grows above water without any feeding and provides value addition to milking quantity &amp; fat content in cattle milk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6886 alignright\" alt=\"CAM00916\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/CAM00916-300x214.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A month prior to that, we<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0carried out a demonstrative activity to explain to Mr. Shankar about the Azolla species\u2019 utility. A month later, Mr. Shankar could see the increase in milking quantity and fat content rise from 4.5 to 5.6 in lactometer as measured at the Dairy Cooperative Society. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1190180.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6887\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/P1190180-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This resulted in him establishing a big azolla structure at his own cost on his farm land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mr. Shankar and his wife (Director of the Dairy Cooperative Society) have now become models for other dairy farmers to cultivate this species in order to reduce their drudgery on usual cattle feeds, and increase their livelihoods.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 On the 27th of January, 2014, our Home Based Project (HBP) in Kundapur guided a farmer, Mr. Shankar (a member of the Dairy Cooperative Society) at Marvanthe to prepare an Azolla cultivation pit. Azolla is an algae species that grows above water without any feeding and provides value addition to milking quantity &amp; fat content in cattle milk. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A month prior to that, we\u00a0carried out a demonstrative activity to explain to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/azolla-demonstration-cum-cultivation-at-marvanthe\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"Closed","ping_status":"Closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[147,124,302,303],"class_list":["post-6881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-based-project","tag-community-development","tag-environment","tag-farming","tag-livelihood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}