Abe Coley wrote: This series of videos is pretty awesome for dry tropical
Is there an English translation available?
I tried to translate the first video…
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after this work that we did there, you know, opening the ditches with a
tractor, etc., And there we accumulated a lot of knowledge, but we also accumulated, for our happiness, a lot of mistakes, right, a lot of experience, so these mistakes were fundamental for us to evolve, create a new experience here in this Another area, right? This other area here has a steeper slope, it must be more or less 8 thousand meters and here it was also a “capoeira” [hen house or fowl run] as the entire area that we cut, the capoeira made windrows and also the hard soil is compacted, work was done here with with a pickaxe also means any air impacted place in the Caatinga [(white forest) refers to the sparse shrub
land and thorny vegetation of the arid interior of northeastern Brazil]
only a pickaxe works if you want to work here but here we did the following it was opened on a contour line not exactly with Rigor of the contour line the ditches around a depth of 20 to 30 cm without regularity, so in these ditches we planted what would be the planting line, right? So in these ditches we planted the Palma in the land downstream of the ditch, that is, the land that dried up and was thrown out, so we planted the palm and inside the ditch we planted the sisal piteira aloe and the trees, right, so here is our tree line. the idea is that when it rains the water from between the lines drains and settles in the ditch therefore hydrating the system, right, so beauty working, etc. But then we realized something that the between the lines was becoming, we discovered how we have that desire, you know, to see everything planted green, so I started searching for a solution here. What to do with the area between the lines. So I planted it between the rows, as seen here, it's a typical Palm here in the region, the palm tree has some thorns, it's very difficult and it's going to work here, I took it like my grass, my grass to form this keep the green. So it is a very rustic Palm. it grows on the rocks in Lajedo with good biomass But what it is like that also taught us. In other words, the root helps its acids and searches for minerals in the stone itself, so there is no need to be surprised because this plant growing in the stone there is a good place because from there it is taking minerals which are what makes up the soil, right? So this experience here is in development, my intention here is to plant grain productive species, it is within this Palm that I want to see its behavior so there are some pieces that are reserved there for us to do this experiment to cover so because the idea the concept the search is that there is not a single centimeter of exposed soil so I'm looking for this it's not easy but we will get there there, but as we move on from the development of the system, we observe that the lines meet, so that anxiety that I think has to be cultivated, the aspect that we have to cover, I don't want to abandon this idea, but the biomass produced the growth of the plants let's say, doing that coverage that I wanted to do with live planting, I don't want to abandon or despise this experiment in any way because this also applies to us accumulating knowledge and this development reaches a point, for example, here in this line are the species that I grew it here so we have it here, it's clear to see the volume of biomass, there's a space there because the plant, in the case of Aveloz [Pencil cactus], the agave that we produced a lot of, this biomass, it failed, right, it didn't develop the size, etc., but it's a sample of what we can do to cover the soil, so the soil that has this characteristic here, in other words, how come we don't do this work, look at the conditions of this soil, right, in other words, just the fact of this coverage, so we have to plant here a series of plants that People say it has no value here in the region. It has no prestige anymore. You're planting wood and that's it, but it's this material that will offer me the conditions for me to grow corn, beans, pumpkin, watermelon, which was like our soil used to be, but ours great-grandparents, right before the concept of the so-called green revolution of monoculture, you cultivated wonderful soil, there wasn't this model of monoculture, cultivated intensely and diversified, this line here, for example, is more composed, right, because here I had the Piteiras [agave] , as we can see the size das Piteiras and I had the Aveloz [Pencil cactus] here, for example, what did I do here with this Aveloz to fully power it, he left only the part to form a
canopy and power the agave , so I have the agave leaves here measuring almost two meters, a third one, this here was planted with a bulb, which is the floral emission from the agave, which is something like 2 cm, right, and it resulted in a wonder of this nature here, right, there is also cotton grown here. So this cotton was pruned and today it is here like this, right? pruned and it is producing the biomass necessary for me to recover the soil and carry out the agronomic cultivation here that interests me, so today there is no doubt that we need to plant the species that apparently have no economic value because they are species that will fertilize my soil and instead of buying fertilizer I plant quickly instead of buying fertilizer I plant with cotton so much agave I didn't need it with the resource itself here with the advantage beyond the financial of introducing into the subsoil the organic matter that plants can do, which is through the root system and as science already knows, this is what the development of the root system favors the development of soil fauna, particularly fungi, right? they communicate between the plants they seek in the space far from that plant the nutrients that the plant needs and offers it and the plant offers it the nutrients that the fungus needs So this symbiotic relationship causes the general development of the system as a whole, we say process agriculture So I need this system to work, you know, diversity and not just what I say that gives me economic value because Aveloz [Pencil cactus] gives me a huge return here as my disbursement for fertilizer is zero, it is a plant of African origin right, it's an ephobia of African origin, right, resistant, fully resistant to our conditions, super acceptable, pruning with the risk, right, we need to be very careful, protecting the skin of the eyes [causes temporary blindness], even breathing in a little bit that it releases, we have to be careful because there is no study on this business, so if the person has difficulty, they may not even plant it, but there are other alternatives that produce, such as the agave, right?
I always want to remember.
Note that we are in the Caatinga without irrigation, with gigantic biomass production, which is what interests me.
carbon biomass protection only we go to the entire cycle of the Agriculture construction process that produces food and animal fodder in abundance.
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