Subhash Palekar Was Born in 1949 in a Small Village Belora of Vidarbha Region of Maharashtra in India
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Annex 3 Eco Farming ®Subhash Palekar was born in 1949 in a small village Belora of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra in India. ® 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 Nagpur.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. 1 Annex 3 Eco Farming ® 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 Mango, Ber, Tamarind, Jamulum, Custard apple, Neem, Moha every year in famine also. 2 Annex 3 Eco Farming ® 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, Karnataka, Andhra of the farmers except Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Kerla, Punjab, Hariana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Zero Budget Natural Jharkhand, Bengal, Rajasthan, Gujarat etc. Farming. 3 Annex 3 Eco Farming ®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 4 Annex 3 Eco Farming ® 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 5 Annex 3 Eco Farming ® . 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. 6 Annex 3 Eco Farming ® 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.