Azolla Demonstration plot at Marvante

 

Azolla is an aquatic floating fern, the fern appears as a green mat over water. The Blue Green Algae cyanobacteria (Anabaena azollae ) present as a symbiont with this fern in the lower cavities actually fixes atmospheric nitrogen. As green manure, Azolla is grown in two to three weeks in flooded fields. This way cattle can benefited from Azolla which is rich in protein and therefore good as fodder for cows, it offers a lot of minerals. That is the reason, why it increased the quality and the amount of cow milk and fat.

With this regards we visited Mrs. Sunandha, she is residence of Koni, she already practicing Azolla plants growing. She shared with us some good information about Azolla. Also we took some Azolla species from her home to Marventhe.

                     

 We visited Maravanthe Panchayat to inform and explained about our Azolla demonstration plot and its benefits.After meet with Panchayath members, we went to Mr. Shakar, Kere mane house. We dig 4 feet length and 2 half depth pit. After we cover with Plastic. Made good boundaries, finally put the water, mixed with water little cow dung for the growth of Azolla, little red soil and finally we spread the Azolla species into the pit. Same way we did another Azolla demonstration plot in Mrs Nagarathna’s house too. We inform how to care about Azolla plot and methodology of caring and using of Alloza to cattle feeding. We also having the view to promote this concept of demonstration for Dairy Cooperative Farmers in a large scale in Kundapur Taluk with a intervention called as “Azolla Village”.

 

Azolla demonstration was done with the involvement of Mr. Austin, Mr. Moritz and community beneficiaries had wonderful day with hard work and In future beneficiaries need to take care about the Azolla plants and spread our knowledge and idea to their community.