Hundreds of farmers attend workshop on ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’

Green Initiatives / Environment, Nature
Natural farming proponent Subhash Palekar (fifth from left) is seen releasing the books as Natural Farming Convener Prasanna Murthy, Janachethana Trust President Prasanna N. Gowda, Kuvempu University former VC Dr. Chidananda Gowda, MLA Puttanaiah, former Speaker Dr. Krishna, Naisargika Krushi Andolana President D.R. Patil, author Raju B. Kannali, Natural Farmer Bannur Krishnappa and KRRS & Hasiru Sene General Secretary Badagalapura Nagendra look on.
Natural farming proponent Subhash Palekar (fifth from left) is seen releasing the books as Natural Farming Convener Prasanna Murthy, Janachethana Trust President Prasanna N. Gowda, Kuvempu University former VC Dr. Chidananda Gowda, MLA Puttanaiah, former Speaker Dr. Krishna, Naisargika Krushi Andolana President D.R. Patil, author Raju B. Kannali, Natural Farmer Bannur Krishnappa and KRRS & Hasiru Sene General Secretary Badagalapura Nagendra look on.

Mysuru :

A five-day workshop on ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’ by Natural farming proponent Subhash Palekar, hailing from Belora village in Maharashtra and known for his books on Zero Budget Natural Farming, began this morning at Kalamandira in city. The workshop is being held under the joint auspices of Janachethana Trust, Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) and Rural Development Organisation.

More than 1,200 people, including farmers from Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Haryana, Orissa and other States, are participating in the workshop.

The workshop was inaugurated by the former Speaker Krishna.

‘Naisargika Krishi Beeja,’ a book authored by Raju B. Kannali was released by Subhash Palekar while ‘Dhanvantari Chikitse Chitra Roopaka’ authored by Subhash Palekar was released by Prof. K. Chidananda Gowda, former Vice-Chancellor of Kuvempu University.

D.R. Patil, President, Naisargika Krushi Andolana, Karnataka, speaking on the occasion, said: “Nowadays lot of farmers are spoiling the soil by using chemicals in order to increase the yield. We should stop using chemicals and move into the path of Natural farming.”

Prasanna N. Gowda, President, Janachetana Trust, Mysuru, in his keynote address, urged those participating in the five-day workshop to take an oath to follow Palekar’s methodology of Natural Farming cent percent.

The workshop aims at introducing nature-friendly farming, controlling of pollution resulting from different forms of farming, introducing natural farming to the farmers who have incurred heavy debts due to unscientific farming, using of Indian seeds keeping in mind the environment balance and to encourage breeding of Indian cattle.

H.P. Ravikumar (Devegowda) of Aralahalli in Pandavapura; Gangadhara Siddaramappa Chincholi of Shindagi in Vijapura, Satyanna of Sagara and M.G. Yogananda Swamy of Tipaturu were felicitated on the occasion along with mementos and a cheque of Rs. 5,000 each.

K.S. Puttannaiah, Chandrashekhar Kadadi, Badagalapura Nagendra and others were present. The workshop will conclude on Nov.23.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General  News  / Wedesday , November 19th, 2014

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