Zero Budget Natural Farming

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Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) is a farming system which relies on on-farm biomass to increase productivity of the soil. Practitioners call for non-compost, non-organic inputs to increase fertility by relying on Jeevamrutha and increasing humus content. In India, Subhash Palekar has promoted and written on it extensively.

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India

ZBNF has been practised in South Indian states like Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh. In Andhra Pradesh, the government has promoted it at state level. [1]

Comparative analysis

This farming method has emprically been proven to be better than organic farming. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Mishra, Srijit (June 2018). Zero Budget Natural Farming: Are This and Similar Practices The Answers (PDF) (Report). Working Papers. Vol. 70. Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-07-13.
  2. ↑ Koner, Nilojyoti; Laha, Arindam (2021). "Economics of alternative models of organic farming: Empirical evidences from zero budget natural farming and scientific organic farming in West Bengal, India" . International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability. 19 (3–4): 255–268. Bibcode:2021IJAgS..19..255K. doi:10.1080/14735903.2021.1905346. S2CID   233686317.

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