This chapter covers the economic impact of CNF. That is the chapter deals with changes in cost of cultivation, crop yields, output prices, and gross and net value of crop out due CNF during the Rabi season of 2024-25.As mentioned in chapter one, the major difference...

To convert various challenges associated with the chemical-based agriculture into an opportunity to resolve the crises facing farmers, 3 the Government of Andhra Pradesh has adopted the natural farming, known as Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF,...

The study uses the “with and without” method to assess the impact of CNF. In this method, the outcomes of CNF farmers cultivating a particular crop are compared with the outcomes of the non-CNF farmers cultivating the same crop.10 Costs and returns data for the crops...

A comparison of costs, yields, and returns from natural farming versus chemical farming in Andhra Pradesh during 2019–20 saw natural farming in better stead compared to chemical farming. The claim made by Das et al (2024) that natural farming could pose a threat to...

Farmers in regions with eruptive climate conditions are adopting pre-monsoon dry sowing as an eco-friendly and sustainable farming approach. Using primary survey data collected by the Institute for Development Studies Andhra Pradesh, the adoption rate, costs, benefi...

The AgroEco2050 foresight process summarized in this study was conducted through extensive methodological and writing work from late 2018 to 2023, by a Project Team from RySS (Government of Andhra Pradesh), CIRAD/CIRED, and FAO (FAO Plant Production and Protection...