Soil filling and the levelling works on the go !!

The soil filling was  done after  all the rocks were unearthed and pushed out with a JCB  and then  we had to pump in about 160 truck loads of red soil from another village nearby. The soil quality was  good and  we had to pay about 1300rupees for each  truck load... i know thats  lot of money for soil but then soil is the most important thing for the well being of the plants .. so i didnt want to compromise on this one ..or .even in the next step in soil preparation which is adding FYM or Vermicompost.  we will be adding  vermicompost today or tomorrow on this soil .. i am thinking of adding about 10 -12 tonnes of it

Water works - Tank/ sump construction.

We dug a pit with  a JCB with a size  with  capacity of about  60000 litres  but the place dimension went a little odd and we extended the length and  decreased width and increased  height. This was the  result of the digging.

side view of the  tank pit

After the intial filling with cement  and large sized gravel on the floor the walls work started off..

I thought it would be a quick one or two days of work .. but it went on and on and on..

Finally we ended with the tank size of 26feet length  11 feet  width and  10feet  height.

adding the supporting bars to give it the  capability of such a heavy load of water.  i guess it will be done in another few days after the plastering work is done. Then they will start the roofing work which is another  huge thing.. its almost like building a huge room with reinforced concrete!

Almost finished greenhouse structure on the outside

Land levelling

The other side of the scene :)

Mr. Vikas from aniketh irrigations making a site visit. Mr srinivas my manager and Shiva kumar the work supervisor walking behind him.

Now that looks something really nice :) ...  i am extremely happy with how its turning into.

Framework almost done !!

polyhouse erection, soil selection, water analysis and drip irrigation selection.

There are  few things that needs to be  addressed properly when you are going into any kind of farming..

• Proper soil
• Good water 
• Adequate sunlight

 as long as these three things are maintained in the right levels.. there are fair chances of your plants doing good.

so  i have been trying hard to get the best possible soil from the near by regions.. have been looking for soil samples from various locations and getting it analysed for soil PH and EC in particular.

i got the water samples  analysed and they seem to be ok and even if they need some changes.. It can be managed with chemical to change the PH and EC of water.
 For the drip irrigation and the fogging system i have been lookng around with various companies Netafim, Finolex, John Deere, Jain  etc..  will make a final decision this week and order for the materials   as i wil have to  get the soil into the polyhouse even before the  polythene is covered and   right after that we need to do the drippers installation too.


as you can see in the pics below .. the current status of work .. half done .. wil take another  week  to complete the rest of the structure ..
Hope everything goes well

PVC structural work in progress

 

Field Visit to local farms to meet fellow Farmers !!

This is Mr.Ravi Kumar's newly erected polyhouse .. his second unit owing to increase in the demand he is starting up the new unit.  This  farm was  far away from hyderabad and it took me about an hour to reach from the city. It was somewhere near a place named Chevella . he is one of the member of the flower grower association here and has been in to this since 2 years i guess. He has about an acre or odd of Filler grass growing in open cultivation and he mentioned to me that it fetches him about 40rs per bunch of that grass. Regarding his gerberas he proudly mentions that he is able to get about 100 bundles of Gerberas with 10 each  from the  560 sq.mtr polyhouse. He mostly sells them to the flower shops directly and doesnt go to the commission agent regularly to sell his produce. He was very friendly and offered to help me in any regards ..look at all the pics i took @ his site .. 

Bed preparation going on in the newly erected polyhouse

 

Though there was some problem with the plants last month due to inavailability of the labor.. the plants seems to do pretty well and the flowers produce was  fairly well !!

These reds were really brilliant looking among all and  according to him .. these are the most wanted ones!!

The person on the left is Ajay from KF BIOPLANTS.. who has taken me to the farm during his monthly visit to the farms . The man talking to him is Ravi Kumar garu.

Thats the grass used as fillers in the flower arrangements..easy to grow and good money too !!

Both old and new polyhouse with the grass in the front !!