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Nation Natural Farming

NATURAL The traditional form of farming will make the life of common people safe and
secure. In such a situation it is important to know various aspects of natural
FARMING farming:

Natural Farming:

No Cost (Zero Budget) Farming has
been identified as a promising means
to reduce the dependence of farmers
on the procurement of materials and to
reduce the cost of agriculture by relying JEEVAMRUT: How to make Jeevamrut: The ingredients
on traditional field-based technologies, required are 10 kg of indigenous cow
thereby promoting improvement in It is made by dung, 8-10 liters of indigenous cow urine,
1.5 to 2 kg of jaggery, 1.5 to 2 kg of gram
soil health. The dung and urine of mixing cow urine, flour, 180 liters of water, a handful of
indigenous cows play an important jaggery, flour, soil from under the tree. The method of
role in making natural manure in the and gram flour, making Jeevamrut with easily available
farm itself, which provide essential etc. with 10 kg of ingredients is so simple that any farmer
can make it himself. For preparing it,
nutrients to the farm. Other traditional cow dung which the farmers should first make a liquid
practices such as mulching the soil improves the by mixing jaggery, gram flour, and cow
with biomass or covering the soil with quality of the soil. dung with water or cow urine in these
green cover throughout the year, even in ingredients. Now put these ingredients in
a drum and mix them with a wooden stick.
conditions of very low water availability, After mixing, properly cover it and keep it
are practiced to ensure sustainable in the shade for two to three days. Every
productivity from the first year itself. day it has to be rotated clockwise for two
minutes with a wooden stick. It has to be
covered again with a sack.

When Jeevamrut is applied in the field with irrigation, the number of bacteria in the soil
increases in an incredible way, and the chemical and biological properties of the soil
BENEFITS: increase. Administer Jeevamrut once or twice a month along with irrigation water at the
rate of 200 liters per acre as per the availability. This increases the number of earthworms
in the soil, which are considered friends of farmers. Deep tillage is also not required in
natural farming. Not only this, but natural farming also increases groundwater. Through
this process, allied crops can be grown along with the main crops.

USE OF JEEVAMRUT IN FRUIT TREES: GHAN-JEEVAMRUT:

2 to 5 liters of Jeevamrut per tree This is the dried form of Jeevamrut, which is mixed in
should be given once or twice a month the soil before sowing the crop. Mix 20 liters of freshly
in a circular motion near the shade that prepared Jeevamrut in 200 kg of sun-dried cow dung
falls near the fruit trees at 12 noon. This and keep it in shade for two days. It is once again dried
makes the soil healthy and the crop is in the sun and grinded with a stick. This preparation
equally good. can be used for one acre of land.

is the reason why people and farmers around us Conference on Natural Farming on 16th December
come to get natural products from us. This has also is very significant as it throws light on the lucrative
increased our profits.” Natural farming is infusing aspect of natural farming. Lakhs of farmers of the
new energy in the country as farmers find it more country have popularised this method of farming
beneficial than chemical farming. In view of this and the Dang district of Gujarat has been declared
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call at the National as a completely natural farming district.

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