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What is Natural Farming? Natural Farming can be defined as “ch | Agriculture Exams Library

What is Natural Farming?
Natural Farming can be defined as “chemical- free and livestock-based farming”. Soundly grounded
in agro-ecology, it is a diversified farming system that integrates crops, trees and livestock, allowing
the optimum use of functional biodiversity.

Natural Farming holds the promise of enhancing farmers’ income while delivering many other benefits, such as restoration of soil fertility and
environmental health, and mitigating and/or reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Natural Farming builds on natural or ecological processes
that exist in or around farms. Internationally, Natural Farming is considered a form of regenerative agriculture—a prominent strategy to save the planet. It has the potential to manage land practices and sequester carbon from the atmosphere in soils and plants, where it is actually useful instead of being detrimental.

Natural Farming has many indigenous forms in India, the most popular one is practised in Andhra Pradesh. The practice has also spread, in other forms, to other states, especially those in southern India. It is promoted as ‘Bharatiya Prakritik Krishi Paddhati’ (BPKP) under the centrally sponsored scheme Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY). BPKP aims at promoting traditional indigenous practices— which are largely based on on-farm biomass recycling with an emphasis on mulching and use of cow dung and urine formulations. It excludes all synthetic chemical inputs. Currently several states are undertaking Natural farming through central programmes like RKVY, PKVY, BPKP and others state specific programmes.