Vol. 12, Issue 8 (2023)

Author(s):
Pinky Yadav, SK Sharma, Sonal Athnere, Suman Dhayal, Vijay Laxmi Yadav, Anshul Sharma and Sundar Anchra

Abstract:
Natural Farming (NF), as the name indicates, is a farming method where the cost of crop production is minimum. The farmers need not purchase external inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides to grow food. The key objective of the NF is to improve soil fertility and to protect the environment. NF is cost effective, Minimum risk farming practice and a climate sustainable model work in parallelism. In recent decades, many of the Indian states have adopted NF system and realized its importance in maintaining soil bio-life and farmers income Experiments were conducted at RCA Udaipur during kharif, 2020 and 2021. The trial comprised 9 different crop management practices viz., T₁-(Control), T₂-Complete NF (1. Beejamrit + Ghanjeevamrit + Jeevamrit; 2. Crop residue mulching 3. Intercropping 4.Whapasa), T₃-NF without 1 T₄-NF without 2 T₅-NF without 3, T₆-NF without 4, T₇ (AI-NPOF) package, T₈ – Integrated Crop Management (50% organic + 50% inorganic) without chemical pesticide) and T₉-[ICM (50% organic + 50% inorganic) with chemical pesticide and replicates three time in randomized block design. The result revealed that N, P and K % in seed and haulm was recorded with T₉ However, its was statistically on par with treatment T₈ and T₇.