Zero-Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), developed by Subhash Palekar, a 69-year-old farm philosopher from Maharashtra, has been generating interest in a large number of farmers across the country. While ...

The story so far: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman thrust zero budget farming into the spotlight in the first Budget speech of the 17th Lok Sabha earlier this month, calling for a “back to the ...

A large-scale switch to zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF), a farm technique being promoted by the Narendra Modi government, could cut yields and productivity, jeopardising food security in a country ...

Follow Us Large scale adoption of Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) — farm practices which exclude all synthetic chemical inputs and promote use of on-farm biomass — would result in ‘tremendous ...

Shimla, March 10 () The scientists involved with the Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) trials at the Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry (UHF), Nauni reaped the first harvest of the ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman first mentioned Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) in the budget of 2019-20. Since then, it has become a buzzword in Indian agriculture. Supporting the government ...

BENGALURU: Zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF) pioneer Subhash Palekar has questioned why the state government is pursuing Israel’s farm technology when ZBNF is the better option. Palekar, a Padma Sri ...

The Modi government sees zero budget natural farming (ZBNF) as a solution to the farm crisis. The 2018-19 Economic Survey recommended it and so did the 2019 Union Budget. In fact, Prime Minister ...

GUNTUR: With the world looking towards the State following Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) practiced by farmers, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said the farmers must be coached in English ...

V Chandrasekhar Reddy, a farmer in Andhra Pradesh’s Kadapa district, has been reaping rich dividends since moving away from conventional farming. For the past four years, he has been using traditional ...

One of the biggest announcements in Budget 2019 was to promote zero budget natural farming (ZBNF) on a massive scale. Terming it as ‘going back to basics’, the Finance Minister made a strong pitch for ...

Mega bucks were chasing Andhra Pradesh’s drive to convert all its 60 lakh farmers to a form of regenerative agriculture that strikes at the root of the country’s agricultural research, education and ...