Natural farming in India

Climate change is widely accepted to be a prime cause for natural disasters. An acute need to identify and understand the constraints faced by the disaster affected farming community to provide them with appropriate solutions as a mean for empowerment. The study was conducted in Panruti block of Cuddalore district with sample size of 194 Thane affected cashew growers. The objective of the paper is to analyse the constraints confronted by Thane affected cashew growers on various dimensions.

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Field experimentation was conducted during kharif season of 2019 at Research Farm, College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, India to evaluate the “Resource conservation technology in pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) through tillage and mulching”.

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Increasing farm labor scarcity and depletion of natural resources such as water are posing threats to the sustainability of traditional Puddled Transplanted Rice (PTR) system in Eastern India. Dry-seeded rice (DSR) or Non-Puddled Transplanted Rice (NPTR) could be used as an alternative to PTR.

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Rice-wheat is a major cropping system prominent on 2.5 million hectares in Punjab. Irrigation is commonly used to stabilize the productivity of this system using surface canal and sub-soil tube well water. Judicious use of water and land resources has been a major challenge for agriculture and it is imperative to use these scarce resources efficiently.

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Management of two critical and important resources viz., Land and water in agriculture has become a challenging task for many reasons. In rainfed and irrigated agriculture, land development plays a key role because of undulating topography of the soil surface. It has a major impact on the germination, water saving and crop yield. Conventional methods of land levelling are more cumbersome and not so precise and repetitive in nature and mainly depend on the skills of the driver.

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The entitlements of women farmers will be the key to improve agriculture productivity, It said, even as it noted that there is an increasing number of women in multiple roles in agriculture sector, as cultivators entrepreneurs and laborers. Alongside, it is focusing on women self – help groups to connect them to micro credit through capacity building activities and to provide information and ensure their representation in decision-making bodies. “Rural women are responsible for the integrated management and use to diverse natural resources to meet the daily household needs.

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A field experiment was carried out at Crop Research Farm, Nawabganj, C. S. Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur during Rabi 2012-13 and 2013-14 in sodic soil with the initial pH 9.5, EC 2.42 dSm-1 , organic carbon 1.2 g kg-1 and exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP) 57.10. Tube-well water used for irrigation was alkaline in nature with pH 8.2, electrical conductivity (EC) 1.19 dSm-1 , sodium absorption ratio (SAR) 10.2 m mol1/2 L -1/2 and residual sodium carbonate (RSC) 8.8 me L-1 .

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Regarding yield of the crops and growth regulation fertility of soil is most important but today’s scenario of agriculture farming in India is not care about it. Without any analysis farmer used unwanted and abundant quantity of fertilizer and water, both results reduce fertility of soil. For sustainable agriculture development and production, analysis, chemical composition, micronutrient, macronutrients and micro fauna from soil is must. Soil is an important natural resource and plays a crucial role in maintaining environmental balance.

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Sesame is an important oilseed crop not only in India also across the world. Studying nature of inheritance of sesame plant characteristics is essential for planning effective breeding programme. The present investigation was conducted at the Agricultural Research Station, J.A.U., Amreli and Department of Seed Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, Sagadividi Farm, J.A.U., Junagadh, Gujarat. These 40 hybrids along with a two checks, G.Til-2 and G.Til-3 were evaluated in a four environments were created through different time and location for sowing during summer 2016.

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Bitter gourd is an important commercial vegetable crop not only in India but also in whole of southeast Asia. Its fruits contain several active compounds and have many medicinal uses as evident from old texts as well as its popularity in modern medicine. Due to limited irrigation facilities and stress on natural resources, getting high yields with minimal input is vital for agriculture in the current scenario and judicious selection and use of mulching can play a big role in water conservation.

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India is a developing nation practicing intensive agriculture for fulfilling the needs of more than eighteen million peoples, for which huge and imbalance amount of fertilizer has been used. Consequently, soil quality deteriorates and inevitable loss of soil microbial diversity. In recent years zeolites a natural aluminosilicate was studied extensively as soil amendment as it increases the soil-nutrient surface area and extend the magnitude of nutrient use efficiency in farming systems.

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A study was conducted for performance evaluation of prototype ride on type paddy weeder in wetland field, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India. The experimental site is geographically situated at 11o North latitude and 77o East longitude and at an altitude of 427 m above MSL.Weed is inevitable part of farming. SRI system of rice cultivation naturally weed growth is more in the fields because there is no stagnated water.

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Shrimp being the most valuable shellfish resource in terms of trade volume is farmed in large quantities in all South East Asian Countries including India as well as in Latin America. This industry has severely been criticized being the root cause of mangrove destruction and environment deterioration in the coastal areas due to wanton intensification and abuse of chemical and antibiotics along with discharge of untreated effluents.

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Beekeeping is a forest and agro-based industry, which is beyond the ordinary realms of industry, in the sense that the humans derive benefits from interaction between two living things like plants and bees without affecting adversely both. On the contrary plants, including many crops, prosper with the abundance of bees (as pollinating agents) and the bees, sheltered both by nature and humans provide mainly honey and other by-products like beeswax, bee-pollen, propolis and royal jelly.

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The study compiled and documented various indigenous techniques of controlling water pH, white feaces problem in shrimp, mortality, fish-lice and use of natural fish attractant along with the socio-economic background of the involved farmers and fishers in selected blocks of 24 Parganas (South) district, West Bengal. The survey was conducted through stratified multiple random sampling procedure in which 66 farmers from 19 potential fish farming villages of two blocks were investigated.

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Role of women in Peri urban dairy farming was studied with respect to access and control over resources and services and constraints faced by them by collecting data from 60 respondents in Cuttack and Jagatsinghpur districts of Odisha. The results indicated that the access and control over natural resources by men were higher for cultivable land and grazing resources whereas livestock was mostly under the joint control of men and women. Women had more access to intra house relation (45.0%) and self-help groups (56.7%) whereas men have more access to banking services (51.

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The objective is to leave as many residues as possible in order to increase soil organic matter and to spread them as evenly as possible. Especially in environments where decomposition is fast and where the amount of residues is low it is not recommended to chop the residues. Rotavator is important machine which break the soil and crop residues and mix so that eventually. Conservation agriculture crop can be increased climatic resilence, food security, soil nutrion, energy reduction and income.

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Phosphorus fractionation study in soils of Agricultural Botany Research Farm, Nagpur were studied in relation to soil properties in which10 surface (0-15 cm depth) and 10 subsurface (15-30 cm depth) soil samples collected from studied area were analysed for different physical, chemical properties and different P fractions.

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Agriculture is the back bone of India and a majority of Indians depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Major challenges confronting Indian agriculture include declining total productivity, diminishing and degrading natural resources, a rapidly growing demand for food, stagnating farm incomes, fragmented land holdings and unprecedented climate change. Indian farmers are not getting expected income from agriculture due to many problems relating to pest and disease, pesticides, fertilizer, processing etc.

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The word „budget‟ refers to credit and expenses, thus the phrase „zero budget‟ means without using any credit and without spending any money on purchased inputs. „Natural farming‟ means farming without using the chemicals. Subhash Palekar, the explorer of ZBNF, introduces many principles and methods of ZBNF. Zero Budget Farmers use natural pesticides and fertilizers. The principal methods of ZBNF include crop rotation, green manures and compost, biological pest control. There are 4 pillars of ZBNF i.e. Jivamrita, Bijamrita, Acchhadana and Whappasa.

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