Zero-Budget Spiritual Farming

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Zero Budget spiritual Farming means for all the crops, the production cost will be zero. In the Zero Budget Natural Farming nothing has to be purchased from the outside. All things required for the growth of the plant are available around the root zone of the plants. There is no need to add anything from outside.
According to this farming there is no need to add any fertilizer in soil as soils already have all the necessary components.
This technique of farming centered around ‘Jiwamrita’. The farmer needs to apply to the crop a dose of Jiwamrita — a fermented solution containing 200 litres water, 5-10 litres cow urine, 10 kg dung, 1 kg each of gur (jaggery) and besan (gram flour), and a handful of soil from the farm bund — for every acre. The other important thing is to spread a carpet of harvested crop residue between crop rows, which helps to absorb moisture from the atmosphere and also prevents emergence of weeds.
Jiwamrita basically nurtures thousands of bacteria essential for healthy crop growth. The urine and dung used in the formulation, should be from indigenous cattle, one desi cow can nourish 30 acres.
Supporter of Zero-budget spiritual farming contend that it is better than organic farming. Organic farming, is based on composting and vermicompost techniques that have originated in western countries and actually pollute the atmosphere, as the resultant manures are known to emit huge quantities of greenhouse gases (methane).

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