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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