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ARKA FAQ's
We don't use cow urine in ARKA.
At this point in India, almost 99.9% of farmers in India have cows on their farms using the urine and manure. Normally pesticides applied with cow urine might end up harming the crop so it's important for us to inform our customers that the same will not happen with the mixture of ARKA and cow urine.
Crops like rice, vegetables, cotton, brinjal, and other shorter crops would require a maximum of 1.5 liters per spray. Compared to the chemicals available in the market, farmers will find ARKA 10 times cheaper.
Bigger trees like mangoes, coconuts or cashews are sprayed with tank tractor sprays. A dilution of 1:200 for a 1000 liter tank will only require 5 liters of ARKA. One 1000 liter tank can be used to spray about 2 1/2 acres.
Younger trees are very receptive to pests and diseases so 1:60 dilution on a regular base will keep them safe.
Soil drenching is done to prevent nematode infestations and root fungal diseases. Nematodes and other root sucking pests are a prevalent problem with cotton, brinjal and many other crops. Nematode infection spreads very fast and can destroy a whole farm.
Pour 200 ml per plant as when the ground is wet it will stay active in the roots.
It's common, even with chemical pesticides, to lose about 10 percent of the crop every year. Regular practise of soil drenching will help reduce this percentage.
Check out how this farmer saved his almost dead tree using ARKA.
Alkaloids are preserved in wet conditions. So spraying during the rainy time will have a longer effect because ARKA seeps to the ground. This gives extra protection and boost to the roots for almost 30 days or whenever the soil gets exposed to proper sun. Generally, the ARKA sprayed during summer will evaporate fast- within 12 days or so.
One common fungal infection problem that coconut farmers face - saplings planted will grow for 2 years and then get completely rotten from the bottom up. This kind of preventive spraying is very crucial to stop this.
Nature doesn't have any side-effects. So ARKA, a completely natural product wont have as well.
Check for breeding areas on the premises. Mosquitoes can lay eggs in even a little drop of water.
ARKA is deflecting the mosquitoes from the sprayed property. It's like applying odomos everywhere, they cannot sit wherever sprayed.
Their only job is to wake up, drink blood and lay eggs so spraying ARKA breaks this habit in that area.
First, it's very important to understand that ARKA will not kill any mosquitoes. We are just outsmarting them.
Find the breeding areas i..e. stagnant water bodies. Like a soaking pit that is damaged, small crevices in your septic tank, tires, coconut shells, and any other place where water could collect. It's very important to first stop the mosquitoes from breeding in the premises. If this is not possible to eradicate then ARKA cannot be effective. Find out more here.
Female mosquitoes do not go beyond 100 meters from a water body. Small mosquitoes show that the breeding area isn't more than 20-50 meters.
Spraying regularly and removing stagnant water bodies prevents any mosquitoes from coming.
During the monsoon, female mosquitoes can travel much more so post the first rain you might have a flood of mosquitoes. But if you are constantly spraying and keeping the area clean then they will come, check and leave. It might take 2-3 sprays to get the effect of ARKA again.
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ARKA can be bought from the online shop.
The point of making ARKA so cheap was to make the product more accessible to all farmers. This way farmers can not only change to organic faster but also save money while doing so.
A farmer generally has to make frequent visits and purchases to pesticide companies. With ARKA a small rice farmer with a 1-acre farm will only have to buy once a year. It's cheaper and because of its high concentration and holistic approach to pest repelling will last long too. Affordable with high-quality standards.
Even big farmers with more land, who generally spend a lot on pesticides, will end up saving a significant amount of money by switching over to ARKA.
In our vision, farmers will grow their pesticides. We can change the system by cultivating calotropis on drylands and the repellant residue used for wetland farming
Water knows no boundaries and we are all connected so there's no point in having small patches of organic land. Completely throwing pesticides out the window is very crucial.
Yes, ARKA is available to order on the online shop.
Feel free to reach out on +91 9790 7777 40
There are conditions and minimum order quatities so connect with us to know the details.
The 20 L pack's cost is subsidized by FABORG. It might cost a farmer or any other company a lot more to create ARKA at such a high concentration.
We are giving ARKA at almost the cost price for the small-time farmers (with 5 - 6 acres max) that India is filled with. Our product will help save them save money while becoming organic and make farming more comfortable and affordable. With ARKA farmers could probably finish the whole season with just one 20L pack. We even put a little extra in this pack!
With such a small quantity only spraying once is possible. Effectiveness of organic products can only be seen after 2-3 sprays as they are completely different from chemical pesticides..
Additionally we want to avoid the use of small disposablepackaging.
Please find information about our shipping and delivering here.
ARKA is already heavily discounted when compared to the chemical or even natural alternatives available in the market
This includes mosquito-repelling alternatives like fumigation too.
We use only high-density recyclable polymer cans that can be used as storage containers on the farm.
A coconut farmer can store his coconut oil after washing our containers.
