ArticleAgronomy for sustainable development2023
Natural farming improves crop yield in SE India when compared to conventional or organic systems by enhancing soil quality.
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- Preceding crops may reduce denitrification potential and enhance ammonium assimilation pathways.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Metagenomic insights reveal the impact of natural farming on soil nutrients, enzyme activities, microbial communities, and yield in turmeric cultivation.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Agroecology benefits people and planet.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- India's agroecology programme, 'Zero Budget Natural Farming', delivers biodiversity and economic benefits without lowering yields.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Synergistic Bio-Organic Fertilization Enhances Tobacco Antioxidative Defense and Soil Health for Sustainable Agriculture.ACS omega · 2025Article
- Jivamrit as a Sustainable Approach: A Review of Natural Farming and Future Agriculture.Recent advances in food, nutrition & agriculture · 2025Review
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Abstract
Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) is a grassroot agrarian movement and a state backed extension in Andhra Pradesh, and has been claimed to potentially meet the twin goals of global food security and environmental conservation. However, there is a lack of statistically evaluated data to support assertions of yield benefits of ZBNF compared to organic or conventional alternatives, or to mechanistically account for them. In order to fill this gap, controlled field experiments were established in twenty-eight farms across six districts, spanning over 800 km, over three cropping seasons. In these experiments, we compared ZBNF (no synthetic pesticides or fertilisers, home-made inputs comprising Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13593-023-00884-x.
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