Category Archives: Zero Budget Natural Farming

Gowda started with ZBNF on just an acre of land as an experiment. However, getting rid of any kind of dependence is not easy, and the same is true for soil and plants. His crops did not take well to the home-made fertiliser, and nearly 50 per cent of them […]

Habitat Management helps in maintaining the diversity of the farm.  The habitat thus created will help in the diversity of the farm in terms of trees and further will sustain the different organisms like friendly insects, pest predators, birds, snakes, owls etc.  This in turn will keep the farm in a […]

The model 1 gives us 61 trees (big and small), 92 shrubs /plants with a cereal crop like bajra in the open space in addition to vegetables and pulses that will grow in the trenches, per 36X36 Sq Ft plot. This means we have 33 times the same in 1 […]

General.  Known commonly as gliricidia or madre tree, Gliricidia sepium is well known in plantation agriculture as a shade tree. Therefore, it is also called the Mother of Cocoa. It is a nitrogen-fixing tree that is native to Central and South America. Gliricidia was introduced to Sri Lanka from West […]

System (VS) is a very simple, practical, inexpensive, low maintenance and very effective means of soil and water conservation, sediment control, land stabilization and rehabilitation, and phyto-remediation. Being vegetative it is also environmental friendly. When planted in single rows vetiver plants will form a hedge which is very effective in […]

Total 8.5 acres and it is 40 KM from Coimbatore Brookfield mall and inside kerala palakkad sholayur. Coimbatore is a big market with multiple Malls, Shops with good demand for pure organic products The land is clean without any history of fertilizers, chemicals . The climate in that region is […]