{"id":89363,"date":"2019-12-13T16:33:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T11:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12341"},"modified":"2019-12-13T16:33:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T11:03:05","slug":"avartansheel-kheti-changing-lives-with-periodic-proportionate-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/avartansheel-kheti-changing-lives-with-periodic-proportionate-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Avartansheel Kheti changing lives with periodic, proportionate farming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Recently,several farmers across the country have started adopting pioneering method of sustainable farming called Avartansheel Kheti.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Avartansheel Kheti:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Avartansheel Kheti is based on the philosophy of A Nagraj who was a proponent of harmonious coexistence.<\/li><li>The Avartansheel Kheti which is translated as Periodic proportionate farming involves dividing the land into zones for cereal crops, vegetables, fruiting trees and animal husbandry.<\/li><li>The farming technique insists that farmers should produce food for themselves first and what remains after consumption should be sold in the market.&nbsp;<\/li><li>This way,the farmer will never put harmful pesticides and fertilisers if they are growing for themselves.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Features of the technique:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Under this technique, the land is divided into three parts.Fruits and trees that grow in a forest are grown in one part.This helps earn additional income while the cost of labor to maintain this land is low.<\/li><li>It also helps the farmer to create natural compost with dried leaves and cow dung which increases the fertility of soil.This eliminates the need of chemical fertilizers.<\/li><li>The second part of land is used rear livestock like cows, buffaloes.They can use the milk for their household and the excess can be sold outside.<\/li><li>And the third of the land is used to grow crops for his home.The farmer can grow rice, pulses, vegetables, fruits, spices, oil among others.<\/li><li>Thus, the farmer sustains his home first and after that, he will sell his surplus products in the market not in raw form but after being processed.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Recently,several farmers across the country have started adopting pioneering method of sustainable farming called Avartansheel Kheti. Facts: About Avartansheel Kheti:&nbsp; Avartansheel Kheti is based on the philosophy of A Nagraj who was a proponent of harmonious coexistence. The Avartansheel Kheti which is translated as Periodic proportionate farming involves dividing the land into zones for cereal&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/avartansheel-kheti-changing-lives-with-periodic-proportionate-farming\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avartansheel Kheti changing lives with periodic, proportionate farming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6811],"class_list":["post-89363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-avartansheel-kheti","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89363","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}