JADAM Organic Farming The way to Ultra-Low-Cost agriculture

What does “JADAM” mean? It is short for our Korean full name Jayonul Damun Saramdul. is name means “people who are like nature.” Yes, we are the nature-like people who believe in and follow the wisdom of nature. In nature’s wisdom lies the path to high yield, high quality and low cost. We have specialized in the search for the method that makes possible farming at ultra-low-cost. Traditional farming was based on common sense and simple knowledge: anybody could follow with ease; all necessary material were available from near; and what were readily available were valued. is is how ultra-low-cost in farming was made possible. Farmers had control and leadership over farming. All over the world, agriculture is leaving the hands of farmers as fertilizer and pesticide companies take more control over it. Farmers now buy all farming necessities from the marketplace – seeds, seedlings, fertilizers, pesticides, microbes, etc. – which in the past were self-sufficient. Farmers now rely on the experts; experts tell the farmers how to use fertilizer and pesticide, what to do when. What farmers have lost has been passed on to the business – the control over farming. is is so in conventional and organic alike. One might have dreamt of a harmony between farmers and business in this new order but the proits are not being fairly shared; rather it lows only in one direction. For the past 20 years, JADAM has studied ultra-low-cost agriculture. JADAM believes that this knowledge can advance the independence of farmers. Farmers should not be mere consumers of products and technologies developed by the agricultural corporations, they need to reclaim what they have lost: knowledge; the will to knowledge; and control over their own fate.