The Management Development Institute, Gurgaon is organizing a lecture series along with GAP Inc. on the 9th and 10th of Nov. The topic of discussion is of great personal interest so thought should share with all my readers. In case you are in New Delhi or NCR and wish to join, please send an email to sugandha118@gmail.com.
Zero Budget Natural Farming
Subash Palekar, the man behind zero budget natural farming has been practicing it for the last 25 years, He says, “zero budget farming technology could solve the food and farm crisis in the country by cutting the cost of production and doubling productivity and production.” Over 25 lakh farmers in different parts of the country, including Kerala, have adopted the zero budget farming technology today.
For over sixty years, Indian agriculture was in a slumber. Lands were scandalized by an unknown thing called as synthetic fertilizer. This was done to help the farmer get a 'better' harvest.
As the farmers started using it, they noticed that the soil had become infertile and could no longer bear crops for the next season. Advised to add more and more fertilizer to the soil to compensate for the nutrient loss, the farmers kept on adding fertilizers but soon realized that plants that grew with fertilizers now needed pesticides. Thus not too long after, they started using pesticides. But gradually the pests became resistant to these chemicals leaving the farmers puzzled.
The farmers forgot one basic thing about the soil – that it HAD LIFE.
Zero Budget Natural Farming means for all the crops, the production cost will be zero. In Zero Budget Natural Farming nothing has to be purchased from outside. All things required for the growth of the plant are available in the soil that they are grown in, more specifically around the root zone of the plants.
In the forests, there is no human existence, but, even then the trees bear enormous fruits. That means nature has supplied all the nutrients needed for the plants. In year 1924, Dr. Clark and Dr Washington, the world famous soil scientists came to India in search of crude oil. They took the samples of thousand feet deep soil and tested it at their American laboratory. The results proved that as we go deeper in the soil, the nutrients required for the growth and production of the plant increase in quantity.
However, thanks to the excessive use of synthetic fertilizers and poisonous pesticides in farms these nutrients are not available because the micro-organisms who convert these non-available nutrients into available forms are destroyed.
Gap Inc. in partnership with MDI is looking to spread this message of sustainability which has the potential to combat the scourges of both poverty and climate change. Mr. Subhash Palekar will be available in Delhi to address this critical issue during the 9th and 10th of November.
For details about the event please contact sugandha118@gmail.com. You can also check the agenda on the Facebook event page.
That is really bad, I hope our government will soon realize the effect of what they are doing.
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