Indian agriculturist Subhash Palekar attended inauguration of eight day training classes’ camp of ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’ at Sarpavaram of Kakinada as chief guest. ‘I am adopting Andhra Pradesh from today to make it as a state of natural farming,’ said Palekar who practiced and wrote many books about Zero Budget Spiritual Farming.
This is for the first time in India, six thousand people, including 5 thousand farmers and 1 thousand agriculture department staff, are being trained for 8 days on natural farming.
Agriculture Department Principal Secretary Vijay Kumar requested Palekar to adopt AP to make it as a natural farming state. Palekar contentedly accepted the proposal. Palekar said arbitrary usage of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, forgetting about the traditional farming system brought despair to millions of farmers with its ruinous effects on soil fertility and also on the rural economy.
“Natural farming is the only solution to the evils faced by the farming community and the nation. It requires little use of water, electricity almost ten percent of present usage of these resources. Yet it is scientific and modern that achieves higher yields,” concluded Palekar.
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