Full Service Consulting, Extension, Implementation, and Plant Materials
A wide range of expertise with services and products for government agencies, commercial farms, research stations, and NGO's in the wet, dry, and monsoonal tropics and subtropics, ranging from extreme desert to rain forest. Specializing in permanent low input sustainable agriculture, agroforestry, multipurpose trees, and polyculture systems in challenging agricultural environments. Includes plant materials, on-site or remote consulting and classes, internships, extension and educational resources.
Pomegranate - monsoonal tropics
Organic Turmeric - humid tropics
Section of family food unit - wet tropics
Commercial Projects
Community Nutrition and Food Security Programmes
Community Nutrition and Food Security Programmes
New crop Development, plus consulting, implementation and management of orchards, perennial vegetables, Moringa and improved Opuntia fruit and pad production, and other perennial crops, greenhouse and shade house crops, medicinal crops and selected annual and root crops. Expertise in a variety of tropical environments including wet, dry and monsoonal. Specializing in challenging situations, from extreme desert to rain forest, as well as pH and salinity issues. Plant materials available from the LBCAS nursery.
Community Nutrition and Food Security Programmes
Community Nutrition and Food Security Programmes
Community Nutrition and Food Security Programmes
Plant materials, consulting, and educational extension resources for efficient and productive family food production units and living family pharmacies. For government agencies, experiment stations, and NGO's. Extensive use of internationally proven species of perennial vegetables which are easy to grow, vigorous, highly nutritious, good tasting, simple to propagate, and have few or no pests and diseases. Moringa leaf powder contains 30% protein, and can be added to many foods. Includes utilization of leaf protein concentrate, and use of annual and root crops, adapted fruit trees, medicinal plants, Artocarpus species, and other multipurpose trees. All are adapted to permanent gardens, agroforestry, food forests, and polyculture systems.
Low Input Sustainable Methods
Community Nutrition and Food Security Programmes
Low Input Sustainable Methods
Strategies for low input systems including producing biomass for mulch, use of nitrogen fixing ground covers as live mulch, nitrogen fixing trees and alley cropping (above) for on-site fertilizer production, Neem trees for on-site pesticide production, Moringa and other multi purpose trees for deep nutrient cycling, and use of nitrogen fixing Azolla in aquatic environments. Low input permanent crop selection, agroforestry, polyculture, and multipurpose trees for the wet, dry, and monsoonal tropics. Plant materials and extension resources available.
Island and Atoll Agriculture
Germplasm and Propagation Center Establishment
Low Input Sustainable Methods
For commercial and family food production. Islands and atolls present challenging environments for agriculture in terms of high and low soil pH, extremes of rainfall, low soil fertility and saline intrusion. Strategies and species are determined by the local environmental parameters in an effort to remediate the limiting factors for successful production. Includes nitrogen fixing biomass production for mulch and fertilizer, medicinal crops, perennial vegetables and Moringa, greenhouse crops, Neem trees, multipurpose trees, agroforestry, Artocarpus species, orchards, and soil remediation, and deep nutrient cycling. Plant materials and extension and educational resources available.
Germplasm and Propagation Center Establishment
Germplasm and Propagation Center Establishment
Germplasm and Propagation Center Establishment
Providing government agencies, research stations and NGO's with plant materials and expertise to create their own germplasm repository, demonstration gardens, and propagation centers. Includes perennial vegetables, nitrogen fixing ground covers, nitrogen fixing trees, Moringa, edible cactus, Neem trees, medicinal plants, other useful plants, and multipurpose trees. Educational and extension materials regarding all species and cultivation techniques are available. Offering on-site or remote education, classes, and assistance with developing and maintaining your facility, plus internships.
Leaf Protein Concentrate
Germplasm and Propagation Center Establishment
Germplasm and Propagation Center Establishment
Leaf crops can supply more protein per square meter than any other crop type. Amino acids in leaves are well balanced, unlike grains and legumes. Leaf protein concentrate is easily produced by a simple process, adapted to home use or at the village level. It also has commercial potential, with a processor in France having an industrial scale leaf concentrate facility. Leaf protein concentrate can be made with leaves not normally consumed directly, such as those from beans and many others. It is a highly digestible nutrient dense product with a very high 55% protein content, and a significant concentration of vitamins and minerals. For family food security, and village industries.
Post Harvest Processing
Post Harvest Processing
Post Harvest Processing
Consultation with additional on-site or remote assistance in developing and managing your process facility. Low and high tech options depending on needs and location, for dehydration, powders, liquids and concentrates, tinctures and extracts, supplements, teas, and other finished products. Processing for fruits, vegetables, root crops, medicinal plants, and others. Assistance with development and formulation of value added finished products of all types. Processing methods adapted to the local situation of climate, finances, and energy availability.
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