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What type of advise are you looking for? What crop and how much acreage?

Get PKM1 or PKM2 from TNAU and just follow the guidelines as per their website.http://agritech.tnau.ac.in/horticulture/horti_vegetables_annualmoringa.html

Unless you are doing intercrops in between the coconut, guava, lemon, drip irrigation is best. Otherwise, raingun/sprinkler would be advisable if there are inter crops.

Take training from KVK, Potheri, Kattankalathur. This place is just opposite to SRM college. You will get all the details from them.

Try Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Potheri Railway Station (opp to SRM college). Call them and find out the timing and date of the training. Don't expect everything to be covered but at least you will get some basic ideas.

If you have enough water for the entire farm, go for diversified crops like Mango, Tamarind, Cashewnut, Coconut, Guava, Pomegranate, Sweet Lime, Lemon and many more depending on the availability of the water and the land parcel. The first few crops I have mentioned can be grown in dryland with...

Diversify into fruit based horticulture and limit paddy to 1 acre for your own consumption and use the available water for the other crops.

Hi All, I would like to know if anybody is practising ZBNF in and around Chennai. Would love to have a discussion with them and visit as well. Thanks in advance Padmanabhan Ganesan

Have 1 moringa between two the existing plants and that too should be suffice, I believe. You can plant the moringa in the borders as well at 5-7 ft apart.

I am sure the institute which has tested would have recommended the remedy as well. If not, check with the local KVK of your district. They should be of help to you. https://www.dummies.com/home-garden/gardening/how-to-adjust-soil-ph-for-your-garden/

http://agricultureforeverybody.blogspot.com/2012/12/live-fence-bio-fence-natural-fence.html

Avoid Glyphosate at any cost. There are so many bad news coming daily in the newspapers and online.

You can graft other mango varieties in the same plant if you are thinking of mango itself.

Casurina can be sold in few years and bamboo can be sold in 4th year onwards.

The rates per acre seems to be quite high.

Unless you prove that organic farming is good for them, they will not follow it. You need to have working model farm which will give them confidence to jump into the model.

Suggest you to incorporate trench method instead of drip.

You can propagate from cuttings.

What crops are grown in the other 12 acres? Will provide more details based on that. Regards Padmanabhan Ganesan http://agricultureforeverybody.blogspot.com

Start with Cactus at the outer fence...Nobody touches that and even the animals wont eat it. Regards Padmanabhan Ganesan http://agricultureforeverybody.blogspot.com