 "Is Subhash Palekar's Zero Budget Natural Farming solution to farm woes?")
Subhash Palekar and his Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) are again in the news.
The government’s Economic Survey of 2018-19 advocated it as a lucrative livelihood option for small farmers. A day after, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech on Friday, mentioned the method as one of the innovative models through which farmers’ income could be doubled by 2022.
ZBNF has been in practice for almost 10 years, in various forms. Japanese scientist and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka first popularised natural farming, practising it in his family farm in Shikoku.
Natural farming is conceptually different from
The government’s Economic Survey of 2018-19 advocated it as a lucrative livelihood option for small farmers. A day after, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech on Friday, mentioned the method as one of the innovative models through which farmers’ income could be doubled by 2022.
ZBNF has been in practice for almost 10 years, in various forms. Japanese scientist and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka first popularised natural farming, practising it in his family farm in Shikoku.
Natural farming is conceptually different from
