November 2020
Would you dislike your friend? Earthworm, your best friend Earthworms are known as farmers’ best friends because of the various benefits they provide that improve soil health and consequently plant health. More availability of earthworms in the soil is considered to be a good indicator of a healthy soil because they improve many soil attributes like structure, water holding capacity, moisture content etc., and also increase nutrient availability and degrade pesticide residues. Because of these best ecosystem service the earthworms provide they are considered to be the farmers friend.
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Would you break the friendship with your friends? Using chemical fertilisers, the application of chemical fertilizers can increase the crop yields quickly, but they gradually damage the soil, like cause soil hardening and decrease soil organic matter and pH after a long period of application, resulting in killing the earthworms, loss of soil productivity. Few decades back farmers started to face challenge in their farming, instead of using the natural resources prudently, do crop rotation, increase soil nutrient through natural way, chemical fertilizers were used for more yield. Yes, initially the chemical fertilizers gave good yield, gradually chemical fertilisers destroyed the earthworms and all the nutrients in the soil and the farmers not only suffered loss on productivity but also lost the natural resources of the soil. Please do not use che
What is tree stipend? You all know that planting trees gives various benefits, it also reduces carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The leaves work as kitchen for the tree to cook energy-rich organic compounds for the tree to grow, this cooking process is known as photosynthesis. During photosynthesis, light energy is captured and used to convert water, carbon dioxide, and minerals into oxygen and energy-rich organic compounds. Trees consume carbon dioxide and turn it into cellulose – woody biomass. The amount of wood is directly correlated to the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed. To make it sound simpler to understand - trees are about 50% water and 50% wood. Since wood is about 50% carbon, each tonne of live tree mass contains about a quarter tonne of carbon. The more a tree grows the more amount of carbon is stored in the tree which is called the carbon credit in carbon market. As the trees grow, TIST measures the size of the tree and using approved methods calculates the amount of woody biomass, and then calculates the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed. All these procedures are standard and approved methods. TIST computes the carbon in each tree grove on each farmer’s land, then aggregates the tonnes. In addition, the third-party validation and verification process reviews and verifies the calculation and measurements done by TIST and finally TIST gets the approved carbon credits which can be sold to entities that wish to offset its business emission. TIST in India is subsidised company of Clean Air Action Corporation (CAAC) based at USA and due to the agreement between TIST India and CAAC all the approved credits that comes of TIST India project is owned by CAAC. CAAC markets the credits, sells and pays to TIST India. TIST India uses this amount to pay the small groups as tree stipend for all their live trees. We are requesting all small group participants to understand this process, as and when CAAC pays to TIST India, TIST India would use the money received from CAAC to pay tree stipend. Poor landless men and women find job and income in TIST