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Banana plants (it's a giant herb) can make their own food, retain water, and in our farm continuously produce 20 to 40 kg bunches without significant input. Banana plants at our farm.  Producing fruits year after year in the same spot without replanting.             Nowadays farmers grow rows and rows of tissue-cultured clones.  These require high fertiliser and fungicide inputs. At our farm, the banana epitomises permanent agriculture.  We use our human intelligence to plant them at the right place - they like moisture and organic material.  They will form a...

The disposal of carcasses and animal wastes often pollutes the environment.   In Malaysia, farms generally bury them or burn them.   At DQ, we compost them and return them to the soil as fertiliser and as soil amendment.  We have innovated our own method of composting carcasses, after much trial and error,  as follows: Lay the carcasses and wastes in layers and between the...