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
ZBNF has been practised in South Indian states like Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh. In Andra Pradesh 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
- ↑ (PDF) https://www.ncds.nic.in/sites/default/files/WorkingandOccasionalPapers/WP70NCDS.pdf.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 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
- 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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