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Videos
Growing Crops 365 Days – Radhamma Natural Farming Journey
This video provides a glimpse into the innovative 365-day green cover technology and explores how a woman smallholder farmer’s shift to Natural Farming catalyzes transformative changes in the lives of India’s poorest farmers. The film illustrates the intricate process of integrating a farmer into a circular economy centred around agroecology-based livelihoods through the adoption of year-round vegetation practices. Additionally, it highlights the influence of peer learning and the exchange of knowledge within the largest agroecology initiative in India, the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming project.
From Dryland to Year-Round Harvests with Natural Farming – The Incredible Journey of Narayanappa
The movie highlights Naryanappa’s achievements through the Natural Farming Model known as “Any Time Money,” ensuring year-round income stability by embracing a rotational cultivation approach with short, intermediate, and long harvest seasons for vegetable crops. The video captures the advantages of Any Time Money’ (ATM) approach is its adaptability to small land sizes, as little as 20 to 50 cents, wherein various vegetables are cultivated in combinations.
Assessing Natural Farming through a Wider Lens: insights from India
A thorough video documenting the outcomes of the TEEB study (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) conducted in Andhra Pradesh through “True Cost Accounting” methods by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. The film vividly presents farmer testimonials as supporting evidence for the study’s findings, highlighting indicators such as social, health, and economic benefits resulting from the shift to Natural Farming.
Amazing Transformation: S. Subramanyam’s 365-Day Green Cover Model in Ananthapuram
Subramanyam’s video serves as a testament to the success of implementing a 365-day green cover strategy, featuring the cultivation of various crops alongside the primary crop in the dryland regions of the Anantapur district. The film vividly highlights the rich biodiversity, presenting a landscape that includes maize intercropped with tomatoes, okra, field beans, and leafy vegetables. The visual storytelling effectively conveys the flourishing plants, enhanced soil biodiversity, and improved yields from this agricultural approach.
Fortunes of Natural Farming
This is a film on the natural farming journey of a big farmer and provides evidence of commercial viability of Natural Farming. Vexed with chemical agriculture, the farmer Ravi Pratap Reddy has shifted to Natural Farming and cultivates crops like rice paddy, black plum and pomegranate. He got 40 tonnes of pomegranate from 6-acres of orchard that resulted in $48,000 with expenses of mere expenses $1200. Farmers like Ravi Pratap Reddy are emerging food system heroes who are contributing to a healthier society with a positive impact on the environment.
Natural Farming Journey of Narayanappa & Ganugulamma
This narrative encapsulates the journey of how family-involved small-scale farmers stand to gain from transitioning from chemical-based farming to Natural Farming, experiencing no compromise in yields, reduced reliance on fertilizers, and a consistent income stream.