• BARINELA KURUVA SREEDHAR
• PANCHAAL BHATTACHARJEE
• BUTTI PRABHAKAR

With the burgeoning human population it is imperative to provide quality and adequate amount of food. Over the decades, farming is completely relied on chemical inputs in order to produce higher yield rather quality of the produce. However, this approach gradually deteriorates the soil fauna and eventually it loses the vigour and becomes unproductive. Challenging the notion of farmers that use of chemical inputs will give higher yields despite quality. To mitigate this issue there is a new alternative approach called “Zero Budget Natural Farming” introduced by Subhash Palekar. Zero Budget Natural Farming is a new component practiced in agriculture that will conserve the fertility of the soil and also ecologically safer. As the name Zero Budget specifies that without using any credit and without spending any money on purchased products farming can be practiced which produce sustainable yields. Farmers are in debt due to agrarian crisis where they invested a huge amount of money to buy the inputs required for farming. To make farmers prosperous and increase the production of the commodity Zero Budget Natural Farming will certainly help the farmers to get profitable yields and reduce the debt used to invest in farming. The basic fundamental methods involved in Zero Budget Natural Farming include green manures, compost, crop rotation, mulching, biopesticides and mechanical cultivation. Although to accomplish a successful Zero Budget Natural Farming there are four key pillars involved in it which includes Jivamrita, Bijamrita, Acchadana and Whapasa. To conclude, Zero Budget Natural Farming is an effective and exclusive method used both in crop production and protection compare to chemical substances for sustainable agriculture.

Zero Budget Natural Farming, Jivamrita, Bijamrita, Acchadana and Whapasa

"ZERO BUDGET NATURAL FARMING A NEW PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.216-225, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908186.pdf

"ZERO BUDGET NATURAL FARMING A NEW PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp216-225, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908186.pdf