It warms the heart to see agroforestry and regenerative farming spreading across the planet. The wishes for a prosperous future sent from here in Portugal!
@@rolandfrutig5524 Yes, I have a small plantation with about half a hundred species of trees and shrubs (some with more than ten varieties) and I am on my way to finding more fast-growing (native in preference) plants to put in the rows and generate biomass at a good pace.
A wonderful exapmple of sanity over povety and ignorance.. If any body tries to tell you again that organic farming cannot work then show them two screen shots from 11mins 22 secs and 15 mins 32 seconds..
Sad to hear that many of the farmers thought you were coming to steal the land. Shows what people have done…… This is a beautiful thing you do. I aspire to do this someday myself. For now I learn and practice. Great job man. This is the lords work.
Makes a welcome change rather than witnessing the disastrous indiscriminate clearing of forested lands. Strange how people don't know this given the number of universities in Nigeria. I'm glad an organisation such as this is taking an interest in Nigeria. Thank you BTH Agroforestry project for helping Nigeria.
Comments like yours are so unnecessary. It’s passive aggressive for no reason as if the farmlands across America haven’t turned their lands into dust bowls. I suggest you do better.
@@soinda87 Chemical/Agricultural companies are very powerful and influential. They trick people here in Canada as well, they are in bed with every school and university. Thank God for the freedom of the internet, while it lasts.
This a great innovation to transform the Northern Nigerian farm lands. The soil is ver fertile in pasts of Southern Nigeria with virgin natural forests, jungle or parts of rainforests that would need clearing before farming can be done there and this system would create a balanced ecosystem without a need for deforestation.
I´m impressed by you, your team and especially what you´ve achieved! It´s just great to see what agroforestry means for the societies and the positive impact it has on the invironment.
Beautiful, need to put these farming practices in place all over the world. For too long we have been clear cutting trees to plant fields which produces great for awhile but eventually strip all the life out of the soil in the process making it almost useless
Beautiful work, BTH Agroforestry and @Roland. What an inspiration for people everywhere. I will be sharing this in Colombia in hopes that it continues spreading.
The green is speaking for itself! The method is working, it is cost efficient and sustainable! Visible example how to transform prone to degradation land into green and thriving paradise. Keep spreading the message Roland Frutig and Andrew Kwasari!
I have never taught of utilizing bananas as a way of water storage and biomass source, this knowledge is so obvious the I will never think about it by self. Thanks from Costa Rica.
Impressive project! Kudos to all of you!! It gives so much hope and will help to stop pesticides and chemical fertilizers from flooding Africa. Keep going and spreading!
what was great about this is how much of the local community this information had already be transferred to. Knowledge is the real killer and the ability's to cut the cost of implementation to allow iit to spread quickly.
Fantastic project!! European/originally Middle Eastern agriculture mainly uses pioneer plants (grasses), that only grow well on bare soil. Industrialized this leads to massive soil degradation and is especially not suited for tropical climate, where heavy rain washes the soil away... Agroforestry needs to be adopted everywhere.
Its very informative video that everyone should watch, and thank you Roland the whole group of sharing your knowledge I myself planning to mimic your success in my native land (Philippines) . please continue sharing your ideas and to what type of trees, plants and root crops the best to integrate. again thank you.
Beautiful to watch! I’d love to make enquiries on purchase of some grass/plants and possibly visitation to the farm. Thank you as I await your response.
Congratulations for your achievements so far. My brother and I have about 15 acres with some mangoes and coconuts with Eucalyptus, acacia and some other species scattered between. We are no experts and would appreciate you assistance and guidance. How can we reach you?
Agroforestry and stock animals to produce meat, milk, fertilizer, leather and other essentials is KEY to healthy land health. Those who would eliminate animals to 'reduce greenhouse gases' have no appreciation for the vital roles in agroforestry.
What a good project. I want to ask you is if you used seads that are geneticly modifide. Manny people in the west are conserned that corporations like Monsamto is puching it's geneticly modifide seads.
Nice project. I want to know how you were able to handle the impact of degradation on the land before you started this project. Was there any form of mechanized land tillage to ease the pressure on the land?
These are not our farm produce. Some farmers close to the project/farm come to dry some of their farm products along the tarred road leading to our farm(during the peak rainfall, August-September). This is not a good practice but because the farmers(especially at that time of year) are forced to practice this because of lack for proper drying areas
At 17:15 you said "Some would not grow banana plant for food..not at all" ..I respect you for you being a farmer..but you are wrong. I am from south india...we use each and every part of the banana tree...the inside tender part of it's stem is used in curry. Banana when it's not yet ripened is used to make some indian snacks...banana initially would in a flower form. It is used in curry. Banana leaves are as food plates...it's a big business for farmers here
Sure, bananas are one of the most productive plant..but that depends on why you have planted the banana. In agroforestry systems,some people plant bananas just as a supportive biomass,shade or feeder plant to the target crop not necessarily for eating or selling.
from the developed (though misguided) world - this is good example of "teaching a man how to fish/grow food, rather than giving a fish/food to the poor, dependent man"
Good question. It's not just about how much they consume but how much they can share with neighbouring plants. Their hydraulic lift system supports the companions with water and nutrients. It has a reason why cassava grows so nicely with them like many other. The Recycling of water in the system is important (condensation) which is much better done by plants of the lower level including grasses. They have to be implemented at the same time.
I ha kei ahnig win i, da wani säge wüt, au cha säge ohni Respektlos übere zcho. Drum, SACHLICH: i ha eure Video am ene Freund vo mir us Mosambik zeiget wil i diese Projekt GENIAL finde. Sini Antwort hät mi erschreck: "Ja, ja, de mit de di wise Hut hät au de dicksti Ranze." Und denn isch er davo gloffe. Villicht chönd dies Teil vo Projekt si?
We don't have as it is mainly the question to follow respectful spacings depending on light requirements ( canopy ) and rootsystems (water and nutrients uptake; pyramids above and below ground). The dynamics of the system (plant succession) are important
He says "we are" a lot but I didn't see him working and I didn't see Him shoveling cow manure without shoes like his workers. The permaculture principles are true however the work model of a fat man working poor men for low wages is not. Some obvious questions are: Who receives income when something is sold? Is seed sold to local farmers or given? Is this their land or his? The project has great potential to help people and it also has great potential for exploitation.
I'm really interested to try implement agroforestry but my parent's farm is small farms, we have 7 farms and each farm only around 0.2--.5 hectare. Is it viable to try agroforestry? Current crops we planted is vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, onion leaf and potato.
There are many options to do it in small scale from kitchen garden to scale. You currently only have seasonal crops and therefore only seasonal photosynthesis. You can start with small plot to get used to the practices. Working in group makes it efficient.
Depending on where you live, you can build a agriphotovoltic stystem. Onions and potatoes don't need 100% of the sun from the day. So planting them under semi transparent solarcells actually works very well. If you live in a country with a lot of sun, you can save a lot of water that some plants would sweat out instead. But also you can grow up a permaculture, with the intention for a high density of diffent plants and very regular harvests.
@@TinyPopcornsTv we have two types of living fence systems. 1. Is composed of different trees: glyricidia, coconut, pigeon peas, etc 2. Acacia nilotica, neem trees, teak, cassava, etc.
