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®Subhash Palekar was born in 1949 in a small village Belora of region of in .

® Since 1972-1985, while practicing the chemical farming, ® He was educated in Bachelors his agricultural production was continuously increasing. But, after 1985, it started declining. He was Degree in Agriculture at surprised that, if he is following the technology of chemical farming i.e. Green revolution totally, then .During Collage why the production was decreasing? After searching the causes for three years, he came to the conclusion Education he was working that, Agriculture science is based on the false with tribals about their philosophy. Some thing is wrong with Green revolution. problems in Satpuda Tribal region.

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® Beginning 1940s in Mexico. ® Green Revolution is being called as ® MEANING : a revolution. Is it so? Is Green Revolution a revolution? ® Renovation of agricultural practices ® What is meant by revolution ? Revolution means creation. Non- violent creation!

® Revolution does not mean destruction. It ® The increasing human diseases like Cancer, means creation. The aim of revolution is to Aids, Diabetics, and Heart attacks are the make saints not evils. outcomes of the Green Revolution. The destruction of the human being! The fertile ® Green Revolution is the transformation land which was producing hundred tones of process of violence. It is not a creation process. Sugarcane per acre or forty quintals of Wheat ® It means destruction of millions of micro- per acre had become so barren that even grass organisms by means of poisonous chemical can not be grown on this land. And this fertilizers & insecticides, destruction of birds, happens to thousands of acre land in India. The soil, water, environment & human health production had declined to ten tones of Sugarcane and five quintals of Wheat. also.

® Then he had started searching ® During collage life, when he was working in tribal areas, he studied their life style and social alternate technology to chemical structure. He had studied the nature system in farming. the forests. He was surprised, that, in the forest, there is no any human existence and assistance. So also, there are enormous fruits to the big trees of , Ber, , Jamulum, Custard apple, Neem, Moha every year in famine also.

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® Then he started the research on the natural ® So also, there are enormous growth of those forest trees. During 1986-88 he fruits to the big trees of studied the forest vegetation. He found that, there is a self developing, self nourishing and Mango, Ber, Tamarind, totally self reliant natural system in the forest, by which all the vegetation and ecosystem is Jamulum, Custard apple, existed without any human existence. He studied that natural system and verified those Neem, Moha every year in natural processes of the forest on his farm for famine also. six year, since 1989 to1995.

® There were about 154 research ® He wrote 20 books in Marathi, 4 projects during this six year’s of books in English, 3 books in Hindi. research work. After six years of All the books in Marathi are to be verified research work, he got translated in all Indian languages.Now, his movement has the package of technique about attracted the attention of media, Zero Budget Natural Farming. politicians and thinkers towards the real problems of the farmers and rural economy.

® To available the poison less food to the human ®Now they believe that, being, only way is Zero Budget of Natural there is no alternative Farming. ® More than 30 Lack farmers throughout for stopping the suicides India are practicing Zero Budget Natural Farming in Maharashtra, , Andhra of the farmers except Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Kerla, Punjab, Hariana, , , Chattisgarh, Zero Budget Natural , Bengal, , etc. Farming.

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®Zero Budget spiritual ® According to Subhash Palekar,to believe in God means not to Farming means for all believe in the statue of God. the crops, the Statues are made by the architects. How can it be God? production cost will Real God is Spirit. Nature itself is be zero. God.

® God’s Constitution is Nature. ® All the nutrients required for ® We should see and experience God through Nature. the growth and development ® Agriculture which does not destroy the of the plant body are not to be Nature is Zero Budget Spiritual Farming. supplied by human beings ® When I follow this method of Natural only by God that is spiritual Farming ,I can say that I work for God. This is how it becomes SBSPF. farming. You may think how it is possible?

® ® For a plant to grow it needs the help of In the Zero Budget Natural Farming nothing has to be purchased from Panchabhutas , ie outside. ® Agni (Sun energy) ® All things required for the growth of ® Space the plant are available around the root ® Air zone of the plants. There is no need to add anything from outside. ® Water ® Our soil is prosperous-full of nutrients. ® Earth

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® How much nutrients the crops takes ® If 98% crop body is constituted by air and from the soil? water, then where is the need to add the fertilizers from the outside? ® Only 1.5 to 2.0 % Remaining 98 to ® Every green leaf produces the food throughout 98.5% nutrients are taken from air, the day. water & solar energy ® These green leafs are food producing factories. ® What is used the leaves for producing the ® . Agriculture Universities says false food? that we have to add fertilizers from outside.

® It takes carbon dioxide & ® . Every green leaf of any plant produces 4.5 gram carbohydrates nitrogen from the air, water per square feet surface, from which from the canal, river or we get 1.5 gram grains or 2.25 gram well given by the monsoon fruits. For preparing this food, the plants take necessary elements like clouds, and solar energy air, water and solar energy from the from the sun for producing nature, not from us. the food.

® . Monsoon clouds do not send any bill for the water ® If this is the ultimate truth, then where is that he supplied. Neither air sends bill for the nitrogen it supplied or the sun for the solar energy. All these are the role of Agriculture University and available free of cost. Whether monsoon clouds use the their technology? Where are the technology of Agriculture University for giving Government and their subsidy? Where rainwater? No! All these elements constituting 98% body of the plant are available free of cost. Remaining are these Krishi Pandits? Friends, none of 1.5% nutrients taken from the soil are also available them are existed here, they fool us. free of cost as it is taken from the prosperous soil Agriculture University says that there is which is enriched with these nutrients. Moreover, for this it does not use the technology of the Agriculture nothing in the soil and we have to add University fertilizers from outside

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® . Then my question to them is why it is not necessary in the forest? In the forest or on the bunds of our farm, there are huge trees of Mango, Tamarind or Plum with uncountable export quality fruits in famine also without any application of chemical or organic fertilizers, insecticides, without any cultivation by tractor, without irrigation. There is no existence of any technology of the Agriculture University, no fertilizers, insecticides, cultivation and irrigation. Even though these trees are giving enormous export quality fruits every year in famine also. That means, for the plants to grow and to give the production there is no necessity of adding from outside.

® If it the ultimate truth that without adding from outside, the plants grows and give the production. It means that, ® When I say that our soil is enriched with the nutrients, all the nutrients needed for the growth then I have to prove it scientifically. Now we will see and production are available around the the scientific evidences for it. In year 1924, Dr. Clark root zone. There is no need to add it from and Dr Washington, the world famous soil scientists came to India in search of crude oil. Barmashell outside. In the forest, there is no human Company sends them in search of petroleum products existence, but, even though the trees are in India. They taken the samples of the thousand feet having enormous fruits. That means deep soil and tested it at the American laboratory. The result shows that as we go deeper in the soil, the nature had supplied all the nutrients nutrients needed for the growth and production of the needed for the plant. Our soil is plant are in the increasing quantity. Our soil is prosperous-enriched with the nutrients! prosperous-enriched with the nutrients.

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® If the scientific evidences say that the soil is ® . These nutrients are available in the form of enriched with the nutrients, then why grains not in the form of Chapati or Roti. If Agriculture University says for soil testing? It there is enough amount of grains in your is also another fraud. The soil testing report house, but nobody (your wife, mother) to cook says that there is enough amount of Potash in it. And you do not know cooking, then either the soil but it is in unavailable form. So, add it you have to be hungry or go to hotel. You will from outside. Actually, they are not saying definitely go to the hotel. If we do not want to false. They say true but half true. Our soil is go to hotel, then you have to bring back your enriched with nutrients, but these nutrients are mother or wife. These chemical or organic not in the form, which the roots want fertilizers are the teefins of the hotel.

® The nutrients in the soil are in the unavailable form. They are in the form of grains not Chapati or Roti. The roots cannot take it in this form. Therefore, the soil testing report says that ® However, in our farm these nutrients are not it is in the unavailable form. This non-available available because the micro-organisms which form is converted to available form by the convert these non-available from nutrients into millions of micro-organisms. In the forest, these available from are destroyed by means of micro-organisms are present in tremendous poisonous chemical and organic fertilizers, insecticides, weedicides and cultivation by the amount (One crore or lack per gram soil) that tractor. If these cooks are destroyed them how convert these non-available form nutrients into the roots will get the nutrients? That means if available form and make available to the we want to stop the teefins from the hotel, then plants. That is why there is no need to add any we have to re-establish these micro-organisms fertilizers from outside in the forest. in the soil. How it can be done?

® By applying the cow dung of our local ® How much cow dung is needed for one-acre cow. The cow dung of the local cow is a land? I had done research on this for six years. I had studied all Indian cow breeds like Gaulao, miraculous culture. As our mother or Lal Kandhari, Khilar, Deoni, Dangi, Nimari wife add a spoon curd (culture) to the from Maharashtra; Gir, Tharparkar, Sahiwal, pot full of milk and whole milk is Redsindhi from West India; Amrutmahal, Krishna kathi, from South India and Hariyana converted into curd. Likewise, the local from North India. I have tested the cow dung cow dung is a culture. One gram of cow and urine of all these breeds on every crop, in dung contains about 300 to 500 crore each Naxatra, in each Charana of each Naxatra. beneficial effective microbes. After six years of research, I found some conclusions.

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® First conclusion is that only cow dung of our ® You need not have to purchase the F.Y.M., local cow is effective not of Jersey or Holstein. chemical or organic fertilizers like compost, We can mix half cow dung and half the dung vermi-compost etc. My six years experimental of bullock or buffalo, but not of Jersey or result says that for one acre land, only ten kilogram of local cow dung is sufficient per Holstein at any cost. Secondly, the cow dung month. One local cow gives on an average and urine of black colored Kapila cow is most about 11 Kg of cow dung, one bullock about 13 effective. Thirdly, the cow dung should be used Kg of dung and one buffalo about 15 Kg dung as fresh as possible and the urine as old as per day. For one acre one day’s cow dung is possible. It is more effective. Fourthly, only one enough. That means thirty days cow dung for cow is needed for thirty acres of land. thirty acres.

® There is no need to purchase the F.Y.M. ® . I thought there must be definitely in bulk quantity. I started thinking, what some relation between the excreta of should be added in the cow dung? I the animals, birds, insects, examined the forest. I found there the earthworms with the production excreta of the animals, birds, earthworms, insects and their urine and growth of the plant. One gram around that huge tree with uncountable of local cow dung contains 300 to export quality fruits 500 crore beneficial effective microbes.

® These micro-organisms decompose the dried ® I found in the shadow of that huge biomass on the soil and get available the tree in the forest, few insects like nutrients to the plants. Nature uses the dung and urine of the various animals, birds, insects ants working there. But in the and earthworms in his self-developing, self- shadow only, not outside the nourishing system. That means the use of cow shadow. I examined and studied this dung and urine is very natural and hence scientific. nature’s self-developing, self- nourishing system for six years. fantastic.

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® I saw that some sweeteners are ® Science had proved this. Nature uses secreted from the roots to attract the sweeteners to attract the the micro-organisms. In microbes, then why not we use it? I addition, these micro-organisms thought why not to add some sweeteners with cow dung? I started get available the nutrients from adding Jaggery with the cow dung the soil to the root zone. There is and urine and examined its effects symbiosis in the nature. on each crop in each Naxatra. The results were fantastic.

® I found the various vegetation in the ® . The matured seed falls down. They are shadow of that huge tree in the decomposed and the energy enclosed in forest. I verified those vegetations. I it gets available to the micro-organisms found 268 different species. Among and the micro-organisms are multiplied. I thought why should not add the dicot them 3 parts were dicots and one- flour to the cow dung, urine and Jaggery. part monocots. I surprised! Why this I started experimenting with cow dung, proportion 3:1? I thought that the urine, Jaggery and dicot flour in different dicot contains proteins and proteins proportions. are saturated with solar energy

® I found after continuous six years ® I had used those things in the experiments one formula, which I Jiwamrita that the nature uses. For named as Jiwamrita. I had used preparing Jiwamrita, we have to use those things in the Jiwamrita that the dung and urine of our local cows nature uses. For preparing only and not of Jersey or Holstein. Jiwamrita, we have to use dung and Because the Jersey or Holstein is not urine of our local cows only and not cow, it is a different animal. of Jersey or Holstein.

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® It has not a single character of cow (Zebu Family). In my experiments of Jiwamrita, I found some conclusions. Firstly, we have to use the dung and urine of the local cow only. If it is not available in sufficient quantity, you can use half of Bullock or Buffalo, but not alone of Bullock or Buffalo. Secondly, the cow that gives more milk, its dung and urine is less effective and which gives less milk, its dung and urine is more effective.

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1. Bijamritam How to Prepare Bijamritam ? 2. Jivamritam 3. Mulching(Puthaydal) 4. Vapasa (Aeration and moisture in the soil)

® Water – 20 lits. ® Local cow doung – 5kg ® Local cow urine – 5lits. ® Lime – 50 gm. ® Pure soil – 1 handfull.

Take 5 Kg Local Cow Dung in a cloth and bound it by tape. Hang this in the 20 Liter water up to 12 hours.

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Take one liter water and add 50 gm lime in it, let it stable for a night.

Then next morning, squeeze this bundle of the cow dung in that water thrice continuously, so that all essence of cow dung will accumulate in that water.

Then add a handful of soil in that water solution and stir it well.

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Then add 5 liter Deshi cow urine or human urine in that solution & add the lime water and stir it well.

Now Bijamrita How to use is ready to Bijamritam

treat the seeds .

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® 1 plastic container which can contain ® Water – 200 lits. 200 lits. of water ® Deshi Cow doung – 10kg ® Keep above mentioned things ® Urine – 5-10 lits together in the container and stair it ® Horcegram/chana/jack fruit seed – well. 2kg ® Keep it in the shade and cover with ® Jaggary (black)/any fruit without chana chakku souer -2kg ® Stare it clock-wise for 2 minutes ® Pure soil – one hand full three times a day

® When we pour Jiwamrutam to the soil, corers ® After 48 hours jivamritam is of Microbs( sushmanus) are being send to the ready for the plants. soil. ® Though there is enough nutrients in the soil,the ® Use and finish it within roots are not able to take it. ® Morobs(Sushmanus ) help to take all the 7days. nutriants,nitragon,phosperous,potash,iron kalsiam ® Jiwamrutam has got a very good smell. ® This smell attracts the earth worms from 15 feet down from the earth.

® Soil Mulching ® Soil-When we loosen the mud with marapalaka ,soil ® Straw mulching becomes new. Because of ® Live mulching sufficient moisture and heat existing the soil,sushmanus continue their work in the soil.

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® We can use anything for ® Planting other crops mulching after the harvest. together with main crop ® eg;:paddy,wheat like ,beans,sugarcane etc.Mulching should be done Coconut,banana,aracnut so that sunlight not straight ,cardamom,Rubber etc. that away go to the earth. is called live mulching.

® It is not sufficient to plant the trees after treating the seeds with bijamritam and pour jivamritam but save the soil from sun light by mulching. When we do like this free flow of air and moisture is happening at the same time.

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