ZERO BUDGET NATURAL FARMING Dr. N.P.PILLAI, Chief Manager & Faculty, P.B.Keskar, AGM & Faculty SBIRB, Hyderabad Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZNBF) means raising crops without using any fertilizers and pesticides or any other external materials. The word Zero Budget refers to the zero cost of production of all crops.ZBNF guides the farmers towards sustainable farming practices thus helps in retaining soil fertility, to ensure a chemical free agriculture and ensure low cost of production( zero cost) and thereby enhancing the farmers income. In short, ZBN, is a farming method that believes in growing ...
ACTION RESEARCH REPORT ON SUBHASH PALEKAR’S ZERO BUDGET NATURAL FARMING - By R.Yogananda Babu* 1. Introduction Our country has been endowed with rich biodiversity, varied types of soil, copious rainfall and abundant sunshine. This immense natural wealth facilitates cultivation of diverse agricultural crops across the length and breadth of the country. During the long period of cultivation of agricultural crops which dates back to the earliest days of civilization, a system of conventional farming based on innate wisdom and experience was practiced until about the period of independence. Since the size of population was less at that time ...
Working Paper No. 70 Zero Budget Natural Farming: Are This and Similar Practices The Answers Srijit Mishra Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (an ICSSR institute in collaboration with Government of Odisha) Bhubaneswar, Odisha June 2018 Contents List of Tables 2 Abstract 3 1 Introduction 4 2 The Crisis in Indian Agriculture 4 2.1 Agrarian Crisis 4 2.1.1 Declining Share of Pie 4 2.1.2 Farmer Income 5 2.1.3 Food and Nutritional Insecurity 8 2.2 Agricultural Crisis 8 2.2.1 Agricultural Production 8 2.2.2 Widening Gap between Agricultural and Non-agricultural ...
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