Zero Budget Natural Farming Explained

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 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

Sources

• Taking agroecology to scale: The Zero Budget Natural Farming peasant movement in Karnataka, India . 10.1080/03066150.2016.1276450 . 2018 . Khadse . Ashlesha . Rosset . Peter Michael . Morales . Helda . Ferguson . Bruce G. . The Journal of Peasant Studies . 45 . 192–219 . 157457483 .

Notes and References

1. Zero Budget Natural Farming: Are This and Similar Practices The Answers . Mishra . Srijit . June 2018 . Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies . 70 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190713032601/http://ncds.nic.in/sites/default/files/WorkingandOccasionalPapers/WP70NCDS.pdf . 2019-07-13 . Working Papers.
2. Economics of alternative models of organic farming: Empirical evidences from zero budget natural farming and scientific organic farming in West Bengal, India . 10.1080/14735903.2021.1905346 . 2021 . Koner . Nilojyoti . Laha . Arindam . International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability . 19 . 3–4 . 255–268 . 2021IJAgS..19..255K . 233686317 .