Natural Farm Inputs
Rodel G. Maghirang
August 6, 2011

Lactic Acid Bacteria Serum (LABS)
• Made from rice wash (hugas bigas)
• Stand rice wash for about 30 minutes
• Cover with paper and stand for 7 days
• After 7 days mix the rice wash with milk at 1 part rice wash to 10 parts milk
• If powdered milk will be used, use 100 grams powdered milk and dilute to 1 liter to make a 10% milk solution.
• Cover the rice wash: milk solution (1:10) with paper or cloth and stand for 7 days in a cool dry place
• After 7 days there will be white cheesy precipitate on top of the solution
• Filter the solution to get the pure liquid which is now the Lactic acid bacteria serum
• Store the LABS in the refrigerator for future use
• Or add molasses or raw sugar to increase population of LAB
• To use dilute the LABS at 1-2 tablespoon to 1 liter water
• Spray to plants to improve resistance
• Can also be used for poultry and livestock as drink to improve digestion and growth.

Fermented Plant Juice (FPJ)
• Use young shoots and vegetable trimmings, or banana pseudostem
• Chop finely, add one part water if the materials are shoots or leaves
• Mix with ½ part raw sugar or molasses (smile!)
• Place in earthen jar or plastic container.
• Cover with paper or cheese cloth
• Store for 7 days in a cool dry place
• Strain to get the fermented plant juice.
• Maybe allowed to ferment for another week
• Do not close the lid too tightly
• Apply as foliar spray or soil drench. 2 tbs/liter water.

Fermented Fruit Juice (FFJ)
• Mix 2 kilos chopped banana or other fruits (except citrus) or peelings
• Mix with 1 kilo raw sugar or molasses.
• Place in an earthen jar or plastic pail.
• Cover with clean Manila paper or cheese cloth and tie
• Allow to ferment for 7 to 14 days and separate the juice in clean container
• Usage: Animal drink nutrient enhancement or foliar spray
• Dosage: Mix 1 liter FFJ to 1 drum (200 liters) of water or 5 ml FFJ to 1 liter of water

FAA – Fermented Fish Amino Acid
• Mix 1 kilo unwashed fresh trash fish with 1 kilo muscovado sugar or molasses.
• Place in earthen jar or plastic pail.
• Cover with clean Manila paper and fasten with rubber strip.
• Allow the materials to ferment for 14 to 30 days
• Squeeze out the juice and place in a clean container and seal.
• Collect the solid fishbone to be used for making calcium nutrient spray formula for plants.
• Juice is used as foliar fertilizer to induce vegetative growth.
• Dosage: 1 liter FAA to 1 drum (200 liters) of water or 5 ml FAA to 1 liter of water.

Water-soluble calcium from eggshells and animal bones

• Burn egg shells and fish bones
• Pulverize then mix with rice vinegar or any natural vinegar at a volume ratio of 1:5-10.
• Mixture will produce bubbles releasing carbon dioxide (CQ2 )
• Cover with paper and leave to degrade for 7-14 days.
• To use: mix 2tbsp CaPhos/liter of water and spray to plants or drench to the soil for Calcium and Phosphorous. Good for flowering and fruiting plants

Seaweed Extract

• Chop 1 kg seaweeds
• Mix with 1 kg molasses
• Cover with cloth or paper
• Stand to ferment for 2-3 weeks
• Stir the mixture occasionally
• Filter and label properly
• This used as foliar fertilizer at 1-3 tablespoon per liter of water

Seaweed Extract (RTR)
• Heat 1 kg seaweed or guso for 15 minutes
• Stir until liquefied
• Add unchlorinated water to make 20 liters
• Add 1 kg kinugay or raw sugar or molasses
• Cover with paper or cholth and store allow to ferment for 1 week
• Use 50-100 ml per 16 liter as foliar fertilizer

Indigenous Micro Organism
• IMO collected through cooked rice in the forest, tree or field
• Leave for 2-10 days
• Rice should be covered with colored mold
• Mix with molasses or brown sugar at 1/3 the volume of the cooked rice and let set for one week.
• After a week the rice/molasses mixture will look like liquid, sticky rice.
• Add an equal part by volume more molasses and store in a cool
• Strain. Mix the strained serum with twenty parts water.
• Spray onto the plants, soil, and compost to inoculate them.


IMO4 (Malaysia)
• Indigenous micro-organisms are naturally inoculated by placing cooked rice under a tree in an undisturbed area.
• Between 3 and 5 days, the rice will turn moldy (IMO1).
• Add brown sugar (1:1 ratio) to the moldy rice and then further ferment for 3-5 days (IMO2).
• Add the fermented mixture (1gm/L) to 10 kg rice bran and further ferment for 3-5 days (IMO3).
• This final fermented mixture of rice bran is mixed with the farm soil in the ratio of 1:1(IMO4).


Fermented Coconut Juice (FCJ)/ Coconut water hormone
• Made from meat and water of mature coconut
• Grate (kayod) mature coconut
• Mixe the grated flesh with its water
• Cover with paper and stand for 3-4 days in a cool dry place
• Filter to collect the milky solution
• This can be used to improve growth and rooting of plants
• Use 1 part FCJ to 18 parts water
OHN – Oriental Herbal Nutrient V3
• Chop and mix:1 kilo clean ginger, 3 garlic cloves , 3 onion bulbs, 100 hot pepper fruits.
• Dilute to 4 liters with clean water.
• Stand over night.
• Strain the next day.
• Use 250 ml/ liter of water for spraying against insects and fungi.

OHN – Oriental Herbal Nutrient D1
• Chop and mix:1 kilo leaves of Hagonoy, 1 kg leaves of tanglad/citronella,100 hot pepper fruits.
• Mix these with natural vinegar (3 liters).
• Stand over night.
• Strain the next day.
• Use 250 ml/ liter of water for spraying against insects and fungi.


OHN (Ato Belen)
• Chop and mix:1 kilo yellow ginger/turmeric, 3 garlic cloves , 3 onion bulbs, 100 hot pepper fruits.
• Mix with 1 liter lambanog/tuba
• Add molasses or raw sugar at 2-3 table spoon per liter
• Stand over night.
• Strain the next day.
• Use 10 ml/ liter of water for spraying against insects and fungi.
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Egg Oil
• Ingredients: egg yolk, 100ml vegetable oil, unchlorinated water, hot pepper (10 fruits)
• Blend egg yolk and 100 ml vegetable oil. Add hot pepper (optional)
• Dilute to 1 liter with unchlorinated water (stock solution)
• Use 10% or 100 ml/liter of water as spray against white flies
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Panchakavya
Ingredients
• Biogas slurry or cow dung 5 kg
• Cow’s urine 3 litres
• Cow’s milk 2 litres
• Curd from cow’s milk 2 litres
• Ghee from cow’s butter 1 litres
• Sugarcane juice 3 litres
• Tender coconut water 3 litres
• Banana 12 pieces

• First mix cow dung with ghee and small quantity of cow’s urine.
• Leave this for 3 days. place this in a broad mouthed clay pot and add the remaining ingredients.
• Mix well by hand and without closing with lid keep in shade.
• Daily morning and evening mix well by hand.
• In about 10 days panchakavya will be ready.
• If you mix it daily with hand or with a wooden ladle it would keep well for a month.

Application:
Apply 2% in water as spray during dawn or dusk on any crop.
The solution should be filtered properly before pouring into the hand sprayer.
For best results, spray at the time of branching, before flowering and fruit setting.
• It provides excellent nutrients to the soil.
• It assists in plant growth and increases chlorophyll.
• improves branching, leafing, flowering and fruiting,
• It is easy to prepare
• Excellent plant growth promoter.

Farmer’s effective microorganism (FEM)
Ingredients Quantity
Pumpkin 3 kg
Banana 1 kg
Papaya 3 kg
Jaggery 3 kg
Egg 5 pieces
Non-chlorinated water 10 liters

Preparation :
• Cut fruits into small pieces the plant ingredients.
• Transfer these pieces into a clean plastic container.
• Mix jaggery in 10 liters of non chlorinated water till it dissolves well and add the eggs to it
• Mix all the contents.
• Close the container with air tight lid.
• Open lid after 10 days to release the air.
• Mix well again. Keep the set up closed for 45 days.
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Collection of FEM :
• After 45 days there will be three layers in the container.
• The upper thin layer is in white color which indicates successful fermentation.
• The middle layer will be pure brown colored liquid and the lower layer will be the semi solid formed by the dissolved vegetables.
• Open the tap fixed at the bottom of the container to collect the semi solid portion in one container. The upper and middle portions are collected in another container.

Applications of FEM :
• 2% to 5% concentration in water can be used as foliar spray on any crop.
• It also acts as a weedicide if it is used with goat’s urine.
• It may act as a pesticide if used after being fermented with neem and papaya leaves.