Contact AFP to get Zeba for any non-profit, NGO, or aid agency working with poor farmers. Click for email to paul@abundancefarming.org
See Zeba dosage rates and calculator below
Abundance Farming Project welcomes non-profit organizations, NGOs and aid agencies in India, Africa and the Americas, working with subsistence farmers, to start evaluations of Zeba with local farming conditions.
Abundance Farming Project pays the material and shipping costs to demonstrate the benefits of Zeba with local farming conditions, through seed-funding by investors in AFP's "New Farmer Starts".
Abundance Farming Project provides long-term subsidies for the material and transportation costs; working through established NGOs who begin covering costs for Zeba to the smallholder farmers they serve.
Increased yields enable local farmers to profit and provide greater food supplies to their communities, enabling them to cover costs after multiple years of surplus.
Expandable model grows where local successes are
widely demonstrated. Community run product distribution provides jobs and
business experience as farming communities prosper.
For basic rain-fed farming in scarce water conditions, our ‘new farmer start’
provides almost 7kg or 15lb of this unique starch-based
superabsorbent. When mixed in the soil around the
roots of plants, this ‘start’ can store about 3400 liters or 900 gallons of
water when it rains, and then release the water during dry spells, over and over
for a year and more, absorbing and releasing as the plants need it. Offering a way for rain dependent
farming families to survive intermittent rainfall and increase crop yields, so
subsistence farmers facing water scarcity grow their way out of poverty.
AFP's Zeba usage guidelines for scarce water conditions
Tubers / melons - potatoes, yams, cassava… squash, cucumber
14 to 20kg per hectare
14 to 20lb per acre
Beans, Onions
8 to16kg per hectare
8 to 16lb per acre
Maize / Corn
8 to12kg per hectare
8 to12lb per acre
Green leafy vegetables – lettuce, spinach …sugar beets
6 to10kg per hectare
6 to10lb per acre
Grasses / Legumes – pastures,
alfalfa, clover
6 to 8kg per hectare
6 to 8lb per acre
Grains – wheat, barley, oats
3 to 4kg per hectare
3 to 4lb per acre
AFP's Zeba usage guidelines
for
sufficient water conditions
Tubers / melons - potatoes, yams, cassava… squash, cucumber 7 to 10kg per
hectare
7 to 10lb per acre
Beans, Onions
4 to 8kg per hectare
4 to 8lb per acre
Maize / Corn
4 to 6kg per hectare
4 to 6lb per acre
Green leafy vegetables – lettuce, spinach …sugar beets
3 to 5kg per hectare
3 to 5lb per acre
Grasses / Legumes – pastures,
alfalfa, clover
3 to 4kg per hectare
3 to 4lb per acre
Grains – wheat, barley, oats
1.5 to 2kg per hectare
1.5 to 2lb per acre
Zeba
dosage conversion table
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| For pounds and acres: | |
| Enter pounds per acre from usage guidelines above | |
| Enter the number of square feet for each plant | |
| Plants per acre | |
| OUNCE of Zeba for each plant | |
| TEASPOON of Zeba for each plant | |
| PINCHES of Zeba for each plant - (3-fingered) | |
| For kilos and hectares: | |
| Enter kilos per hectare from usage guideines above | |
| Enter the number of square meters for each plant | |
| Plants per hectare | |
| GRAMS of Zeba for each plant | |
| TEASPOON of Zeba for each plant | |
| PINCHES of Zeba for each plant - (3-fingered) | |
Five stages of the AFP sustaining model correspond with the project development stages:
AFP Metrics and Assessment
Key evaluation metrics and measures for each project development stage:
Stage 1 - How many farming households plant with Zeba, yield increases from the recent crop cycle, annual HH income increases, and estimated water offset (compared to typical for crop yields).
Stage 2 - How many NGOs are funding how many farming households planting with Zeba, yield increases from the recent crop cycle, annual HH income increases, and estimated water offset.
Stage 3 -
How many farming households increase
yields
and HH income over how many consecutive years while
affording what portion of costs for Zeba.
Stage 4 - How many communities undertake distribution and the total community economic benefit in crop yields, HH income increases, jobs added, and total water offset.
Stage 5 - How many factories distribute to how many communities, what product cost reduction and what manufacturing capacity dedicated for that region's smallholder farmers, producing what economic benefit, and the total water offset.


