The Prime Minister will address a National Summit on Agro and Food Processing.At this summit, the Prime Minister will spread basic knowledge about <\/span>Zero-Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF).<\/span><\/p>\n ZBNF is a technique of farming developed by Padma awardee Subhash Palekar of Maharashtra.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n It aims to help farmers bring down input costs by shifting away from agricultural chemicals and relying instead on natural inputs,<\/strong> mainly an admixture of urine and dung of native Indian cows.<\/span><\/p>\n At the heart of ZBNF is the idea that nearly 98% of nutrients needed by crops are CO2, nitrogen, water and sun which are available naturally and free of cost. <\/strong>The remaining nutrients need to be absorbed from the soil.<\/span><\/p>\n Hence, they are converted from non-available to available form through the action of microorganisms<\/strong> and an admixture of cow dung and urine.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the technique has not been scientifically validated<\/strong> and there is no evidence to show if it yields added any value for farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n More Links Related to this Topic<\/b><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cPM to address natural-farming event amid scientists\u2019 concerns\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Livemint <\/b>on 14th December 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Prime Minister will address a National Summit on Agro and Food Processing.At this summit, the Prime Minister will spread basic knowledge about Zero-Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF). What is Zero-Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF)? ZBNF is a technique of farming developed by Padma awardee Subhash Palekar of Maharashtra. It aims to help… Continue reading PM to address natural-farming event amid scientists\u2019 concerns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10501],"class_list":["post-153185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704881809},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Zero-Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF)?<\/b><\/h5>\n
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