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To start-off with the Organic Manure Experiment

The student enthusiasts of Organic Farming observed that ADBU Tapesia Campus and DBU Cafe are richly provided with raw materials (twigs, dry leaves, green weeds/leaves, topsoil, vegetable peels and rice gruel) for making organic manure (Compost heap and Vermicompost) which could be thereby utilised for growing Organic Food Crop in the Bio-intensive raised beds. Thus with the collaboration with the DBU Cafe, a few group of students at the initial stage desire to experiment in the ADBU campus.  The following are the required items: 1. A plot of land for making the compost heap. 2. A 50-litre water container to mix manure water. 3. Two Spades 4. One Knife 5. A Mug (to pour manure water) 6. Vermicompost (five Thermocol box) 7. Five small bamboo-shades made with thatch for the vermicompost. 8. Spay for organic pesticide 9. A 5-litre pot to boil organic pesticide 10. Plastic Sacks (20) and 4 jute sacks 11. Water (when vermicompost and bed is mad...

Mary Clubwala Jadhav: Indian Contemporary Social Reformer

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Introduction: Mary Clubwala Jadhav  (1909-1975) was an Indian philanthropist and a recipient of India's civilian honour  Padma Shri . She has been the reason behind the awakening of the dawn of several NGOs in  Chennai  and the rest of the country. Often credited with setting up the oldest organized social work bodies in India; her contribution is unparallel. Her organization Guild of Service operates more than a dozen units related to the orphanage, Female Literacy, Care and Rehabilitation of the Disabled etc. She has been honoured with  Padma Vibhushan , the second highest civilian honour of India in 1975.  A.     Her Life Mary was born in 1909 in Ootacamund in the then Madras Presidency to Rustom Patel and Allamai, member of the 300-strong Parsi community of Madras city. She had her schooling in Madras and married Nogi Clubwala at the age of 18. They had a son, Khusro, in 1930. Nogi Clubwala died due to an illness in 1935. Af...