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Sri SubhashPalekarjiFather of Zero Budget Natural Farming in India : Sri SubhashPalekarjiFather of Zero Budget Natural Farming in India 11/16/2011 2 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
What is the situation now? : What is the situation now? More than two lakh farmers committed suicide in India so far from 1997.
Agricultural production has drastically fallen down
Agriculture is contributing around 60% of the global warming
Andhra Pradesh stands in 1st position in the above things. 11/16/2011 3 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
What are the causes? : What are the causes? Agriculture labor is becoming a rare commodity.
Agricultural expenses have escalated
Natural disasters due to wrong practices of farming
Green revolution is proven a wrong step.
Heavy usage of Fertilizers, pesticides and using tractors, excess amounts of water reserves. 11/16/2011 4 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
What are the solutions? : What are the solutions? Bringing down the cost of agriculture production.
Going by natural process of farming.
Establishing gramin centers for distribution of agriculture products
Following… gav ka paisa gav me, shehar ka paisa gav me, America aka paisa gav me, policy. 11/16/2011 5 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
ZBNF adopted paddy dry crop : ZBNF adopted paddy dry crop 11/16/2011 6 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
Can you imagine a village without farming in India? : Can you imagine a village without farming in India? Farming is the back bone of the village in India.
Village is the back bone of the country.
Economy of the country depends on the agriculture as it is the pure creator of wealth.
Food is the basic need of human beings.
Controlling food, controls the country- new world war strategy. 11/16/2011 7 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
Trace your generation back : Trace your generation back Everyone in India has the origin in agriculture
Surnames come from the place where you had cultivable land.
Agri-culture, Horti-culture.. Are really cultures. Not professions, nor jobs nor business.
Everyone should know how to produce food free of poisons.
Do anything without losing the roots in farming. 11/16/2011 8 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
What was human being doing about 10000 years back? : What was human being doing about 10000 years back? Business?
Employment?
Professions?
Puja and other spirituals?
Living in forests like all animals. 11/16/2011 9 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
Did the forest come first or the humans? : Did the forest come first or the humans? Man has not created forests.
Forests and nature created man.
Man destroyed forests.
Got deviated from the natural life style.
Developed Ego to the extent of controlling the nature and its resources.
Manipulate nature to show his superiority over nature. 11/16/2011 10 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
Results of Zero Budget Natural Farming : Results of Zero Budget Natural Farming Krishnappa of Bannuru village near Mysore grown Sugarcane crop.
Visited by Raviji 11/16/2011 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji 11
Sugar cane 100 tons/acre grown : Sugar cane 100 tons/acre grown 11/16/2011 12 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
Damages caused by human race : Damages caused by human race Forests depleted
Destroyed soil in the name of agriculture.
Usurped all the natural resources like water.
Polluted the atmosphere.
Caused extinction of many species of animals, birds, plants.
Main cause for Global warming and related natural disasters. 11/16/2011 13 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
What is the solution for all these ? : What is the solution for all these ? Establishing forests.
Stopping the exploitation of natural resources
Save the planet earth from the man made disasters like depleted water table.
Produce poison free plenty of food for all.
Make man get tuned to nature and ecological balance.
Agriculture to be sustainable and environmental friendly. 11/16/2011 14 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
How Zero Budget Natural Farming is THE solution? : How Zero Budget Natural Farming is THE solution? One man can easily take care of 35 acres single handed.
Uses very minimum natural resources like 10% water.
Any soil is ok for any crop in this agriculture.
Takes a very short time to adopt.
One desi cow is enough to enrich 60 acres land. 11/16/2011 15 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
BannuruKrishnappa’s ZBNF farm visited by more than 3 lakh visitors : BannuruKrishnappa’s ZBNF farm visited by more than 3 lakh visitors 11/16/2011 16 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
What do you need in ZBNF? : What do you need in ZBNF? Just a bit of land and nothing more.
No tractors cultivators needed.
No need for hybrid seeds to be purchased.
No fertilizers to be purchased.
No pesticides to be purchased.
No weeding required.
No flooded irrigation required.
No marketing strategies required for the products grown naturally. 11/16/2011 17 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
How is it possible to cultivate without water? : How is it possible to cultivate without water? Observe early in the morning humidity deposited below the fallen dry grass. How?
In hot summer, 40-60% humidity in atmosphere and in winter and rainy seasons 70-85% humidity in atmosphere.
Mulching stops evaporation of water.
1 KG dry mulch can absorb 6 liters of atmospheric water.
Save 50% water by watering alternate salu only.
This is how we save 90% water in ZBNF. 11/16/2011 18 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
How is it possible to cultivate in any soil? : How is it possible to cultivate in any soil? Earth has all the requirements for the plants to grow.
If weeds can come, crops also can grow.
Use microorganisms to enrich your soil. (Jeevamrutham)
Activate the local earth worms dormant in your soil.
Make non available form or nutrients in soil to available form for the plants to grow. 11/16/2011 19 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
The power of Indian native cow : The power of Indian native cow 11/16/2011 20 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
How in ZBNF we need no fertilizers? : How in ZBNF we need no fertilizers? Bhumi Annapurna. Means soil is rich with all nutrients for plants to grow.
We should take only those we use and leave the rest from the crops to soil itself.
Stop completely removing crop and burning down the crop remains.
Jeevamruth - 200 liters per acre per month is enough as a culture to convert the soil. 11/16/2011 21 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
Why we do not need Pesticides, insecticides and anti-infectantsin ZBNF? : Why we do not need Pesticides, insecticides and anti-infectantsin ZBNF? Pests and infections won’t come to infect a healthy crop.
Even if infected the healthy plant can have immunity to withstand their effect.
Natural pest controls in the form of complementary crops and Asthras will help.
Use of desi seeds strengthen the crops. 11/16/2011 22 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
Huge tall crop of Jowar in ZBNF : Huge tall crop of Jowar in ZBNF 11/16/2011 23 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
Why no need for weeding in ZBNF? : Why no need for weeding in ZBNF? Mulching in the field will stop the growth of weeds.
Inter crops will replace the growth of weeds.
Weeds are used for enriching the soil components.
Plants do not compete for the food. They coexist and live in symbiosis. 11/16/2011 24 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
Stop Farmers Suicides : Stop Farmers Suicides Between 1997-2007 number of farmers committed suicide are 1,82,936
49% farmers in India are under debts and A.P. is 82% as per K.V Thomas, Central Dy. Minister for Agriculture.
Rs. 60 thousand crores loans are exempted by Govt. but in vain.
Wrong treatment for the disease called suicide, promotes number of suicides. 11/16/2011 25 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
ZBNF education is the solution : ZBNF education is the solution No villages without farming. No Rural development without educating in ZBNF.
Farmer should be rescued from dependency of the external resources brought from Cities.
Village heads must be educated about how to do the sustainable form of agriculture.
Establish ZBNF information and training center in villages.
1 model ZBNF farm of 2 – 3 acres in every mandal to be established. 11/16/2011 26 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
Multi layer crop system in ZBNF : Multi layer crop system in ZBNF 11/16/2011 27 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
Healthy Wealthy villages : Healthy Wealthy villages Eating naturally farmed food is the birth right of everyone.
Health is the immediate solution given to mankind.
We need to protect our mother earth from warming!
When we know the solution, is not our responsibility to offer it to our own farmers? 11/16/2011 28 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
6 feet tall Banana bunch in Wardha : 6 feet tall Banana bunch in Wardha 11/16/2011 29 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
Join hands with all Non Govt. Org.s! : Join hands with all Non Govt. Org.s! Our immediate aim is to spread the knowledge.
Chose one young and enthusiastic small farmer from each mandal.
Train them directly by Sri SubhashPalekarji at state level camp.
Establish one model farm at every mandal.
Provide trainings, seeds, cows at every mandal level. 11/16/2011 30 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji
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Write to: M.R. Ravisankar,
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RSVK Horticulture and Rural Development Society,
5/19, Ramamandir street, PENUKONDA, ANANTAPUR DISTRICT – 515110. 11/16/2011 31 Prepared by Sri Ravisankarji