Hello,
I’d like to thank you for taking the time to visit with us to talk about Natural Sequence Farming.
Unfortunately due to my heavy commitments, I am unable to answer question and comments made here within the time frame that most blogs work within.
I will however, try to get here as much as I can.
Once again thanks for all your support.
Regards,
Peter
Greetings,
I have posted the following on both the forum and sent to your CEO Bill. However I feel that this request may be in the “too hard basket” as it has me scratching my head for the most gentle and viable solution:
I am an Aus Aid funded volunteer working in Nth Viet Nam with an NGO that wants to change farming methods to sustainable organics and I am to be managing a 2 to 6 ha farm here (initially), that is a victim of the slash and burn and NPK monoculture madness that seems to be a global problem now.
The top soil here, like much of the rest of the region is pretty much non existent, and red clay subsoil is all there is left.
The situation can mostly be managed using NSF advice, but my biggest challenge is the Eucalypt plantation on this site, which I think is E. urophylla. There is also a small plantation of what I believe to be Acacia mangium, but this I believe has been Genetically engineered to prevent seeding fortunately, so should be easy to manage. Problem is, like everywhere else, these 2 species have come to dominate the landscape on the higher ground, but they are never inter planted, so a monoculture situation prevails. Like much of Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, these 2 species have come to dominate the landscape and much of this madness appears to be “Aus Aid” funded. I would like to encourage the planting of native rainforest species in the hope of helping what little native fauna remains here and have been at a loss to find Camphor laurel seeds or plants, as they have been long ago logged for their highly prized timber. Quite a contrast to the Aus. situation where I farmed for 35 years or so in the Northern Rivers area of NSW where the cattle and sugar cane industry successfully demonised this tree to the point of having it removed and chipped to fuel the “Green Power” electricity generators at the sugar mills. All this to the tune of in excess of $50 million of government funding I might add.
So please, what should I do to best demonstrate a profitable and sustainable way to deal with the Eucalypt situation here?
Colin.