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Coconut gardens produce huge quantity of husks as waste. This is used for making coir. Coir dust a byproduct of coir industry had been facing problems for its disposal and has caused pollution due to wrong way of making cocopeat by washing the coir dust and disposing the contaminated water.
In this method developed at IIHR, Bengaluru we demonstrate to you how to convert this waste in to valuable cocopeat in shortest time using microbes. Conventional methods for making cocopeat are taking a long time from about three months to one year. In this IIHR method we can make the best cocopeat in 30 days without any environmental pollution.
Materials required to make cocopeat are : the raw coir dust, two microbial culture viz., Arka decomposer and Arka microbial consortium, urea , silpaulin bags, a watering facility and shaded area. Cocopeat can be made in open heaps or with large containers or with simple silpaulin bags. Here we will show how to make cocopeat in silpaulin bags in the simplest way. Silpaulin bags comes in different sizes and the one we are showing you holds one ton of cocopeat.
First place the silpaulin bag securely so that it remains erect preferably under shade.
Put the raw coir dust in to the silpaulin bag and uniformly spread and make a layer of one feet height.
Then mix 5 kg of Arka decomposer with coir dust and divide it into three parts for spreading in three layers
Spread the first portion of the Arka decomposer uniformly over the already prepared one feet layer of coir dust.
Make the second layer of coir dust by spreading the coir dust over the first layer.
Take 3.5 to 4.0 kg of urea and divide it into three portions. Spread the first portion on the coir dust layer in the silpaulin bag.
Then make the second layer of coir dust and spread the second portion of the Arka decomposer.
Then spread the coir dust in to the bag and spread the second part of urea over this layer.
Continue like this till one ton of cocopeat is filled completely till the brim of the silpaulin bag by alternatively spreading Arka decomposer and urea.
Finally water the coir dust filled silpuline bag carefully such that water is uniformly spread and when squeezed by hand only one or two drops of water comes out.
Cover the bag with a shade net or any available material and keep it for 15 days.
In-between regularly observe the water content so that enough moisture is there in the coir dust. If it gets dry then add water to maintain the water content in the heap.
On 15th day thoroughly mix the layers of coir dust, culture and urea together and prepare the heap in the same way, check for moisture content and adjust the moisture level. Cover the heap again and keep it.
regularly observe the moisture level in the heap and maintain the moisture level such that when you squeeze in hand one drop of water comes out.
On 28th day take one kg of Arka Microbial Consortium and mix with a portion of coir dust from the same heap and uniformly spread over the heap and thoroughly mix from bottom to top., check for the moisture level and cover it. On 30th day the cocopeat is ready for use. It can be used in the nurseries or grow bags or portrays wherever it is needed.
In nurseries it can be filled in the portrays and seedlings can be prepared. In grow bags it can be filled in and used for rooftop gardens. In polyhouses it can be used in beds instead of soil. In hydroponics it can be used as a support media. It can be effectively used in production of disease free seedlings of coconut, arecanut, pepper, coffee, sugarcane, ginger, turmeric pigeonpea and many more.
It can be prepared in small scale at homes for roof top gardens or in large scale by nursery people for use in their own nurseries and in very large scale by coir industry people. Coconut farmers if they buy coconut husk grinders they can make cocopeat in the garden itself and earn money sometimes even more than selling coconut itself.
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