Zero Budget Natural Farming in India – from inception to institutionalization

Khadse, Ashlesha; Rosset, Peter

doi:10.5380/dma.v58i0.81370

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“…ZBNF is a local and regional grassroots agrarian movement and regenerative agricultural practice that has the potential to enhance the socio-ecological resilience of smallholder farmers to climate and land use change. At the same time, it can increase their food autonomy and reduce their dependence on costly external inputs such as agrochemicals, which have been linked with high levels of debt and the resulting phenomenon of farmer suicides across India (Khadse & Rosset, 2019; see also Mu ¨nster, 2016). In Andhra Pradesh, the expansion of ZBNF is a state-wide agricultural priority that is being facilitated by a centralized organization called Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS), which delivers ZBNF training and advisory services to farmers through village-based Natural Farming Fellows (NFFs).…”

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Thematic Collages in Participatory Photography: A Process for Understanding the Adoption of Zero Budget Natural Farming in India

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Osbahr

Cardey

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This paper presents the use of thematic collages as a methodological innovation to participatory photography as a research framework. Participatory photography was used to understand the subjective “off-script” motivations behind the full or partial adoption of Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) by members of women’s self-help groups in Andhra Pradesh, India. The addition of thematic collages to existing participatory photography methods was developed as a mechanism to better support the dialogic generation of new Freirean “generative themes” for investigation by a group. Further, the use of thematic collages invites the integration of “renegade” or non-thematic images into participant group analysis. ZBNF is an agricultural practice that has become an extension priority in Andhra Pradesh. It emphasizes the use of defined chemical-free inputs and regenerative farming techniques as a holistic approach toward socio-ecological resilience. As part of an interdisciplinary research project, this participatory photography design was piloted parallel to a soil science experiment in three geographically distinct agroecological zones in Andhra Pradesh. We show how participatory photography, with the novel addition of thematic collages, can be integrated into interdisciplinary research as a method to discover the underlying motivations to adopt agricultural practices and participate in agricultural movements like Zero Budget Natural Farming.

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Thematic Collages in Participatory Photography: A Process for Understanding the Adoption of Zero Budget Natural Farming in India

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Cardey

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…It promotes neo-Gandhian virtues such as self-sufficiency and autonomy. (Khadse and Rosset, 2019). It involves a variety of agro-ecological principles, such as diversification, nutrient recycling and promoting positive biotic interactions, among others, to improve soil fertility (Palekar 2006).…”

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Subhash palekar natural farming - scope, efficacy and critics

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Rana

2022

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By 2050, India is expected to surpass China as the world's most populated country, with a population of almost 1.7 billion people. To feed this exponentially increasing population, the country must pursue a policy of vertical productivity growth, as the possibilities for additional horizontal expansion of cultivated land are rapidly diminishing. Furthermore, continual cropping depletes soil nutrient resources, necessitating the replenishment of soils with critical major and minor plant nutrients. The country cannot compromise with nutritional supply in order to end "Silent Hunger" and the immoral perpetuation of high concentrations of increasing number of malnourished children and anaemic moms. While the country is intending to restructure its agricultural production system, including R&D, to meet the needs of rising problems, the 2018-19 economic survey established a strong case for the widespread adoption of ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming' (ZBNF) to double farmers' revenue. As a result, crop productivity will remain low, and farmers will not be able to earn enough to double their income and get out of debt with this level of output. Also at the country level, we will not be able to meet the expanding populations food and nutritional demands and hence will fail to meet the sustainable goals of “Zero Hunger and Poverty Elimination” by 2030. Thus, with zero budget natural farming practices we can feed to the India and world, our emphasis is too elaborate all aspects.

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“…This farmer-led agroecological farming believes collective approach and active participation of the tenant/low landownership class by delinking them from the external inputs and credit markets, thereby increasing net value added (van der . It economizes scope by creating autonomy over farm inputs, thereby reducing production costs or offsetting costs by multiple income sources through farm diversification (Rosset & Martínez-Torres, 2012;APZBNF, 2018;Khadse & Rosset, 2019;De Roest, Ferrari, & Knickel, 2018). Further, experiences gained by the farmers over time, along with agroecological practices, make the system sustainable and technically efficient (Timmer, 1970;Lucas, Gasselin, & von der Ploeg, 2019).…”

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Community Managed Natural Farming: An Integrated Approach with Pre-Monsoon Dry Sowing Farming in Andhra Pradesh, India

Mishra

2022

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Andhra Pradesh is one of the leading states in India that adopted Zero-budget Natural Farming known as Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) under the centrally sponsored scheme Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojna. This paper analyses the impact of APCNF in the Southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh based on farmer-level data collected by the Institute for Development Studies Andhra Pradesh (IDSAP). As a part of this program, farmers used to adopt various agroecological practices which are locally sourced at zero/low costs and meant for enhancing soil biota and fertility, reducing soil temperature, retaining moisture content in the soil, etc. to make the agroecosystem profitable and sustainable. Cost of cultivation, the gross value of output, and net value addition levels of farmers practicing PMDS and APCNF are compared with those of farmers practicing chemical farming. Farm-level technical efficiency and determinants of technical efficiency are estimated by using the Stochastic Frontier Production Function. It also compares the levels of technical efficiency among groups of farmers and gives some policy conclusions.JEL Classification Code: O13, Q12, R11, R52

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Zero Budget Natural Farming in India – from inception to institutionalization

Cited by 9 publications

References 13 publications

Thematic Collages in Participatory Photography: A Process for Understanding the Adoption of Zero Budget Natural Farming in India

Thematic Collages in Participatory Photography: A Process for Understanding the Adoption of Zero Budget Natural Farming in India

Subhash palekar natural farming - scope, efficacy and critics

Community Managed Natural Farming: An Integrated Approach with Pre-Monsoon Dry Sowing Farming in Andhra Pradesh, India

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