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In my farm in virudhanagar district in tamilnadu (800-900 mm rain). I want do to 36x36 subash palekar method 1 acre as a trial. I have access to enough water to provide water for this 1 acre throughout the year through drip irrigation.
Is there any practical video in english or tamil on doing a 36x36 model from start to end ? I tried finding one all i ended of with are a few scattered videos of whiteboard explanations. nothing practical showing real fields. Found a few videos in Telugu [1 ( =NqFohYjzRUE)] , but nothing in tamil or english.
Hi i just now read this Blog and from past obeweek am looking on Plaekar Method. I have land and i want to Grow Vegetables that is Cabbage & cauliflower. Cna anyone of explain for this also we have to treat the seeds with Bijamitra will this formula work out....My email ID ..Praveen...@gmail.com
Hi
This is santosh from Bijapur, I hv gone through this new technic , really impressed. I bought a book & hv gone through that, so I decided to start this so before that I want to visit those farmers who hv used this & u mentioned some formers whome u visited so could u give their full address & contact no so I can visit & hv live experience.. so please help... I hope u can sir
Thanku
Hi Nadandkumar . I am Mahesh Sakhalkar am engineer by qualifications and currently director in a company called utopia ..I am seriously thinking on starting zero budget farming.i donot have a land of my own . I am thinking of taking it on lease and establish this concept of farming and take it ahead . Can u pl advice as how should I go ahead
Hi Nandan .I am Mahesh want to work on the concept of zbnf on lease land . Can u pl advice as how should I start this concept and take it forward over a longer period of time to get sustainable income
Hi Mahesh,
To get an idea about zero budget farming, you can read books by Subash Palekar, there are 4 or 5 volumes, will be able to find it in net. The book contains address and phone numbers of farmers in different states and you can visit them.
All these should give you an idea of zero budget farming and you can start on a small scale first and get a hang and then expand it.
Wish you all the best with this farming venture !!! Hope more and more people come to this field...
Regards,
Nandan
I am a software professional and live in Hyderabad. I am a great fan of natural farming & yet follower of Subhash Palekar. I have 13 acres of farm where I cultivate 50 varieties of fruits including exotic fruits like Dragon. In the farm I planted Glyricidia on the farm boundaries, have 4 India desi cows to make Jeevamritha using cow dung, urine & basin.
using farm yard waste I make manure. No tilling/plouing being done in the farm. Most of my spending is on removing bushes and put them in to a manure making pit. I apply 1-2 ltrs of jeevamritha to a the plants once in a month, apply glyricida leaves twice in a year. Application of Jeevamritha as pesticide also giving good results. Harvesting and fruits ripining as well been done in natural methods with out usage of carbides etc. These fruits are giving amazing taste and fetching very premium price in the market. Farm fresh fruits are being sold in the farm itself and organic food lovers queues up at my farm for buying fruits. We also growing nursery where we grow varieties of seedlings and sell them at no profit basis. My this farm is very close to Airport in Rajahmundry and right on main road. I welcome organic/natural farming lovers to visit my farm, contact Ramki Bondada @ 9989499749, HYDERABAD.
Hi, my name is UmaMahesh and working in Admin Dept in an IT Company located in Hyderabad. I am more interested in Agriculture Field. I am thinking of starting zero budget farming. I do not have any land. My plan is to work under any former who works on different kind of crops and get some knowledge and take land on lease and start the process on my own.
I am checking if somebody is there to train in this way.
Thanks
UmaMahesh K
+91 8096302389
Hello Nandakumar,
your blog is very interesting, i have about 3 acres of land and have been following some subhash palekers methods like using jeevamrutham and agnihastram, so far i have not seen any results, what may be the issue? i have used it on my mango trees and still look dull and fully infected.
regards
Sampath
Hi Sampath,
Nice to hear from you. You have to maintain diverse crops and make sure that no sunlight which falls on the farm goes wasted, there should be some plants to capture all the sunlight. There should be glyrecedia, subabul etc for green manuring and they should be cut and mulched periodically.
Just applying Jeevamrithm alone won't do, there should be complete cover on the ground, both live mulch and dead mulch.
Regards,
Nandan
Hi Nandan,
Thanks for the post. May I ask you if you implemented the Palekar ZBNF model on paddy. If yes, what was your experience.
We grow paddy in 1.5 acre field, primarily for our own use. I got back to farming last year and have stayed away from any inorganic fertilizers and pesticides. I had mixed results primarily due to weeds. I do not intend to go the inorganic route but implementing palekar philosophy seems herculean task for me due to following reasons,
1. Shortage of labor: We use machinary for tilling, planting, weeding and harvesting. Due to shortage of labor, it is just not possible to move away from machinaries. I understand there is no tilling in the Palekar model but how about the effect of harvestors on the seedlings. Don't they just destory them?
2. Usage of paddy straw: Since I am conscious about what I feed to my cows, I use the straws from the field since I don't use any chemicals. In the Palekar model, the straw will go back to the field for mulching rather than as cattle feed. Instead I feed green leaves back to the farm just before the tilling for next cycle. Any experience/thoughts here?
3. Weed has been one of the major issue on both the paddy cycles last year. Hand weeding is not an option if I want to break even in paddy, forget profits. The only other means I understand is the inter row machine weeding, which tills the ground to some extent. If I go for no till model while planting, the land might get so hard that it might be impossible to run the weeders. Did you face any hardships with weeds?
That's all I can think for at the moment. I have not read any of Palekar's book yet (want to buy them now but I have the lockdown excuse :)), so may be he has addressed these issues already.
Thank You,
Shyam
Shyam, sorry for the delay in response, got held up with a few things.Here are my thoughts..
1. I haven't implemented no-till method, I was looking for options for this and came across this. I use tilled organic method for rice. Yes, harvester will destroy the seedlings. I tried to just grow cowpea after rice, it didn't establish uniformly, mainly because of moisture issues.
2. Even I put lots of green leaves in the field before tilling. I am planning to grow more glyricedia on the bunds
3. Typically after many cycles of no-till and mulching, land will become soft. As you mentioned, weeds is the major issue for me also, if I weed 2 times, I get a decent crop, if I don't do this, there will be 0 harvest.
By the way, where are you based, let us talk some time when you are free.
Regards,
Nandan