Shri Shrikant Pohankar gave this presentation at the STARS Forum 7th Annual Conference, where he introduced many interesting and innovative ways that farmers can bring down input costs, improve incomes, reduce wastage and damage to crops by stray animals. Wide adoption of these techniques will certainly make a huge difference to the farming community - which is constitutes majority of India's population.

2. POHANKAR FOUNDATION
Presents
Upliftment of farmers in
different States of India
with the help of
innovative experiments

3. Sea Salt
A Gateway of Prosperity
Unimaginable experiments
with Sea Salt in farming

4. ORIGINE
John Napier,
a Scotish
Mathematician
(1550 – 1617) was
the first person who
used Sea Salt as a
Fertilizer 419 years
ago in 1597.

5. Why Sea Salt?
1.Contains not less than 82
ingredients.
2. Highly affordable than chemical
fertilizers.
3. No bad or side effects.
4. All purpose input. Can be used as a
Fertilizer,Micronutrient,Insecticide,
Weedicide and Fungicide.

6. METHOD OF APPLICATION
1.Ploughing after adding 50 kg / acre.
2.Adding 15 kg /acre to soil when the crop becomes
15 days old.
3.Addition @ 15kg/acre at 15 days interval till
harvesting.
4.For Horticultural crops – 15kg/acre at 15 days
interval through Drip or Ring method.
5.As an insecticide - Add 5 gms/lit of water & spray.
6.As a weedicide – Add 15 gms/lit of water & spray.
7.For reclamation of salty lands - 15kg/acre at 15 days
interval.

7. Cost per kg
Chemical Fertilizer: Rs.25
Sea Salt : Rs. 3/- (- 88%)
Sea Salt from Salt Pans :
80 paise. (- 96.8%)
97% less cost than Chemical
Fertilizers.

8. Amazing transformation of Brinjal
crop just within a week after
applying Sea Salt

10. Mr. Bharat Rajput, Nandurbar.
Variety : Paapada. 300 Q/Acre green chillies

15. Mr. Bharat Rajput, Nandurbar,
M.S. (Contact: 77440 12774)
Brought 10 tonnes of Sea Salt from
Ankaleshwar and used it for all crops
totally replacing Chemical Fertilizers.

18. Cashewnut starts yielding after 3 years.
This plant treated with sea salt has profuse
flowering within just 1 year.

19. Search 'Shripad Kanekar' on
Youtube and you will be able
to watch 6 videos of
experiments with Sea Salt
and Sea Water done by Mr.
Shripad Kanekar at Sonurli in
Sindhudurg district ofhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM3iYp

20. Mr. Shripad Kanekar : 98192 56660

21. The journey which commenced
with a few bags. . . .

22. Has entered into truckloads
of Sea Salt within a short period!

24. Irrigation Projects
of Self-Dependent
(Swayamsiddha)
Farmers

25. Treadle Pump

26. Farmer operating a Treadle Pump

27. A person weighing 60 kg can lift 4000
lit water per hour to 45 ft height from a
depth of 20ft.
Treadle Pump

28. Filling water in a Farm Pond with
the help of Treadle Pump

29. School going children operating
a Treadle Pump
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30. Treadle Pump
Bhinge Brothers
60-62 (A) M I D C Industrial
Area, Satpur,
Nashik – 422 007 Maharashtra
Contact : 0253 – 6611483
94239 63081
Cost : Rs. 4050/-

31. Irrigation WithoutIrrigation Without
ElectricityElectricity

32. Diversion Dam

33. Diversion Dam with outlet

34. The operator is removing end cap

35. Waterfall in the Paddy field

36. A Green Village in summer

37. Mr.Suryakant PatilMr.Suryakant Patil
Contact:Contact: 94238 67471
94039 63790
Irrigation Without ElectricityIrrigation Without Electricity

38. A Mutipurpose Motorcycle

39. Motorcycle Tractor
Mr. Mansukhbhai Jagani

40. Motorcycle Tractor

42. Illiterate farmer Mr. Masukhbhai Jagani
has named his innovation as 'Bullet Shanti'.

44. 350 cc (6.5 HP) engine is essential.
Ploughing of 1 acre land in just 30 minutes with
a fuel consumption of 2 liters of diesel.
Weeding of 10 Hectors of land in 1 day with
expenses of Rs. 8/- per Hector.

45. Bullet Shanti in Maharashtra

46. Mr. Mansukhbhai Jagani
Mota Devaliya, District Amroli,
Gujrat. Contact : 99254 47400
Motorcycle Tractor

47. Motorcycle Trolly

48. Motorcycle Trolly

49. A motorcycle driven water pump

50. A motorcycle driven Chaff Cutter

51. One more
way of
lifting water
with the
help of a
motorcycle.

52. Mr. Nagesh Swami, Shivade, Karad, Satara
Motorcycle Sprayer

53. Bicycle : The real friend of a
marginal farmer

54. A Bicycle Harrow

55. A Bicycle Harrow in South India

56. A Bicycle Harrow is becoming very
popular amongst marginal farmers in
Maharashtra

57. A Bicycle Sprayer

58. A Bicycle Sprayer

59. M/s Sagar & Vishal Ravale, Washim,
Maharashtra
Innovators of A Bicycle Sprayer

60. Bicycle driven water pump

61. A Bicycle Driven Sprayer

62. A Motorcycle Driven Sprayer

63. A Swing Water
Pump
Suction : 5 mts
Delivery : 40 mts.
Pressure : 5 kg
per cm
Cost : Rs. 45000/-
2

64. Modern Technical Centre
144, Narayan Peth, Kelkar Road,
Pune – 411 030
Contact : 020-24452620
9822307775
email : kedarpathak90@gmail.com
mtc1964@rediffmail.com
www.moderntechnicalcentre.com

65. Traditional method of Paddy
Transplanting

66. Machine operated Paddy Transplanter

67. Manually operated Paddy Transplanter

68. Weifang Luke Machinery Co Ltd,
Shandong, China (Mainland)
US $105-190
(Rs.7000 - 13000)

69. Protection of Crops from
Wild Animals

70. RATS

71. BENGAL GRAM

72. Besharam / Mahananda / Garvel
Ipomoea carnea

73. Wild Pigs

74. Old Chappals and Shoes made of
genuine leather

75. GULAAL

76. A
Lakshaman
rekha of
Gulaal

77. Nilgai

78. Rotten Eggs

79. DEAR

80. MONKEYS

81. Human Hairs

82. Finail
Sea Salt

83. Innovation
for saving
crops from
the attack of
birds.

84. Innovation
for saving
crops from
the attack of
birds.

85. Farmers in
different
States have
started using
this technique
to drive away
birds from
their crops.

86. Factory of Pure Water

87. Drumstick

88. Drumstick Seeds

89. Drumstick
seeds
after
cleaning
& sorting

90. Pure water
after
filtration
Water
treated with
Drumstick
seeds powder
Impure
water

91. METHODOLOGY
1. Collect seeds from completely dried pods.
2. Remove the thin white membrane.
3. Grind the seeds to make a fine powder.
4. Powder of 2 seeds per lit of water is required
if the water is too muddy, and powder of 1
seed for 4 lit of water is enough if the water is
not very bad.
5. Add the powder in water and allow it to
remain stable for one hour.
6. Filter the water with the help of a clean cloth
and what you get isPurest water in the world
approved by FAO.

92. From
Sowing to
Feeding in
just 10
days !

93. Hydroponics : A boon to drought
prone areas

94. Farming on
Banana Trunks

95. Banana Trunks

96. Planting
vegetable
seedlings
on Banana
Trunks

97. Farming on Banana Trunks

98. Farmers Meeting in a CORD Village

99. A Self-Dependent CORD Village

100. HELPLINE
98226 98100
shrikantpohankar@gmail.com
9 a.m. – 9 p.m.

101. HELPLINE
98226 98100
shrikantpohankar@gmail.com
9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
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