Three Day Training on Zero Budget Farming From February 11

Bhopal: Three day long training on Zero Budget Natural Farming will be held from February 11. A total of 1500 farmers and agriculture officers of 313 blocks will participate in the training programme. Natural farming expert Padamshree Subhash Palekar will inform about the special farming in the programme. The training programme will be concluded on February 13.

Farmers will be apprised in detail about negative impact of environment pollution and use of pesticides on agriculture production in the training programme to be held at Motilal Nehru Stadium. Information on zero budget farming will be given during different sessions of the training programme.

Zero Budget Farming

The concept of zero budget farming is based on cow. Natural farming can be done in 30 acres of land with one vedic cow (Desi Cow). Cost of main crop can be obtained from the sale of auxiliary crops and the main crop can be taken as bonus.

Moreover, farmers are not required to purchase any inputs like seeds, fertlisers and pesticides etc. to make market cost zero and to produce these items at home or at the farm itself is the concept of natural farming. This farming will facilitate farmers not to obtain loan from the market as they are not required to purchase anything from the market. The concept of zero budget farming is based on vedic cow, earthworms, bijamrit, jivamrit and ghanjivamrit (bacteria based dry fertilizer) etc.

Subhash Palekar is working continuously in this direction.

As many as 50 lakh farmers have adopted zero budget farming in the country. Moreover, farmers of other countries have also adopted this technique in the agriculture. Furthermore, loss to the crops can be controlled and diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart attack can be prevented by the zero budget farming.-WTN