Zero Budget Natural Farming
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.
India
[edit]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
[edit]This farming method has emprically been proven to be better than organic farming.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
Sources
[edit]- Khadse, Ashlesha; Rosset, Peter Michael; Morales, Helda; Ferguson, Bruce G. (2018). "Taking agroecology to scale: The Zero Budget Natural Farming peasant movement in Karnataka, India". The Journal of Peasant Studies. 45: 192–219. doi:10.1080/03066150.2016.1276450. S2CID 157457483.
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