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JADAM
Organic Farming
Flora May A. Billena
Agriculturist II
OPA
JADAM ORGANIC FARMING SYSTEM was
developed by Youngsang Cho
Son of Han Kyu Cho; the father of Korean
Natural Farming
Born in 1965 in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi
province, Korea
Graduated from Suwon High school and Aju
University (chemistry), & completed
master's degree in horiculture at Chungnam
University.
Started organic farming and raised animals
himself from 1991 in Asan, Chungnam
province after completing his military service
Establish "Jadam Organic Farming" and started to
promote this farming system through books and
website (www.jadam.kr)
Established "Jadam Natural Pesicide Insitute" in
2002 from where he coninued his research while
integraing knowledge from many experienced
farmers which led to the compleion of the system of
ultra-low cost Jadam organic farming.
Invented and developed many technologies for
natural pesicide which he voluntarily did not patent
but rather shared through books and website.
"Natural Pesicide Workshops" teaches the essence
of ultra-low cost Jadam organic farming.
Lectures are disclosed on Jadam website and
Youtube.
Major invenions by Youngsang Cho
Jadam weing agent (made without heating)
Jadam sulfur (germicide)
Jadam liquid ferilizer (made without sugar or molasses)
Jadam microorganism soluion using potatoes
Ferilizer program for crops
Jadam natural disinfectant for rice bakanae disease
Jadam natural pesicide for powdery mildew, downy mildew, fungus
Jadam natural pesicide for canker
Jadam natural pesicide for aphids, mites
Jadam natural pesicide for tobacco moths, beet armyworm
Jadam natural pesicide for sinkbugs, thrips
Jadam natural pesicide for slugs
Jadam natural pesicide for chicken lice
Jadam natural pesicide for coffee berry borer
Naphthalene pesicide About the translator
What does JADAM mean?
It is short for Korean word “Jayonul Damun Saramdul.”
It means “people who are like nature.”
“We are the nature-like people who believe in and
follow the wisdom of nature. In nature’s wisdom lies
the path to high yield, high quality and low cost. We
have specialized in the search for the method that
makes possible farming at ultra-low-cost. Traditional
farming was based on common sense and simple
knowledge: anybody could follow with ease; all
necessary material were available from near; and what
were readily available were valued. This is how ultra-
low-cost in farming was made possible. Farmers had
control and leadership over farming”.
JADAM’s ultimate objective is to bring
farming back to farmers.
Trough JADAM’s method, farming can
become ultra-low-cost, completely
organic, and farmers can once again
become the masters of farming. Farmers
will possess the knowledge, method and
technology of farming.
When organic farming becomes easy,
effective and inexpensive, it can finally
become a practical alternative.
Farmers, consumers and Mother Nature will
all rejoice in this splendid new world we
wish to open
Vision
1. Four Aims
Jadam’s Perspective:
A technology does not qualify as “organic” just
because it excludes chemicals.
If organic farming cannot compete with conventional
farming in terms of productivity and price, not many
people will choose to practice organic farming.
Many people say you have to do organic farming for
the environment and people’s health, but people will
choose to do organic farming only when it is
profitable.
To be profitable, it has to be simple and doable, cost-
saving and cheap, scientific and effective.
JADAM promotes four aims:
Simple: principles are simple
Easy: easy to make
Scientific: methodology is scientific
Effective: process is highly effective
and low-cost
2. “I” am the farming expert
For thousands of years, farming
belonged to the farmers.
Historically there were almost no
instances when a farmer could not farm
because he had no money
Organic farming today has evolved into
a strange system where you have to
“buy expensive things from afar instead
of valuing what is near and cheap.”
Organic farming is not something new. It
is still vivid in our memories.
The method practiced by our ancestors
holds the key to solving the problem of
high-cost modern organic farming.
It contains an entire system of utilizing
microorganisms, liquid fertilizers and
doing pest control.
Let us bring farming back to the
farmers. Nobody else but “I” should be
the farming expert. Only then will you
recover the viability of your farming.
3. Challenges facing agriculture
Global free trade in agricultural products will
expand; high-cost and high-price products will not
be able to compete.
Energy-dependent systems of agriculture will fall
into crisis.
Grain prices will rise in times of global food crisis
and importation of these food staples will become
difficult.
Rising sea levels could threaten vast areas of
farmland.
Global financial markets will become more volatile
and economies will be stuck in low-growth.
Bacillus anthracis, a well-known “bad guy” that causes canker, is
not always bad. Having them in certain numbers actually keeps
other pathogens away. Toxin produced by these bacteria have
the effect of inhibiting cancer growth in the human body. Bacillus
anthracis cannot be simply judged as “bad.” Like all other life
forms on earth, it all depends on what situation they are in.
Look closely at nature and you will see that “good or bad”
approach is nothing but an illusion. It sounds more scientific,
sophisticated, and advanced to divide microorganisms into good
and bad but this is nothing more than a marketing ploy
4. Farmers can sell throughout Asia
As countries open their borders to more free
trade, moving of agricultural products
between countries become easier.
A new era is approaching where a person in
any country can purchase produce from
any other country.
The most important thing is the product to
be competitive. If it is competitive, it will
sell all over the world; if not, there will be
nowhere to go.
PRINCIPLES
Crop rotation or fallowing is against the laws of
nature. It is not something we observe in nature.
“Rotation farming” is a strange concept made up
to conceal an erroneous method of farming of
removing crop residues. Organic farming is:
treating nature as your teacher (“Do as
nature does”);
understanding crops by understanding my
body (“I and others are one”); and
living without leaning to any biases (“Good
and bad are one”).
Co-existing with wild grass
“It is high time to seek a symbiosis with wild grass, or weeds.
If we do not succeed in transforming our relationship with
wild grass into a symbiotic one, farming will be forever a
pain.
It is about time we do away with our flawed and partial
understanding: that weeds absorb all the water and
nutrients that should go to the crop and that weeds cause
diseases. Not that this understanding is wrong per se. It
could be true in the short-term like one or two years.
But observe four or live years; then the result will be different.
You will find that when there is wild grass on your soil, it
will be much moister, more fertile and have less disease.
These are the findings of recent studies.”
Cover crop prevents
“early flowering”.
Cover crop prevents chilling and
freezing damages
Cover crop mitigates soil compaction
and increases mineral content
Grow a few different kinds of grass in your orchard. Cut them
down two or three times from spring to autumn and they will
turn into excellent fertilizer. This method will increase both
the organic and inorganic (mineral) content of the soil.
Wild grass with vigorous growth will stretch roots deep into the
earth – more than 1.5 times the above-ground height – and
pull up the minerals from deep down. The roots eventually
diversify the mineral content of the surface soil and make it
available for crops.
For example, the root of rye will penetrate two to three meters
(7-10 ft) below the surface, enriching deep soil with organic
matter and pulling up inorganic nutrients from the same sub-
sphere. Such powerful root activity will ease soil compaction.
Soil Management
A healthy soil is a living soil with perfect
balance of or triangulation among
Physical, Chemical, and Biological
Properties
Microorganism as composition of the
Biological properties of the soil