Assessing the Impact of APCNF: A comprehensive Approach Using Crop Cutting Experiments, Pre-Monsoon Dry Sowing Farming in Andhra Pradesh – 2020-2021

One of the important objectives of APCNF is to keep the soil under green cover round the year through Pre-Monsoon Dry Sowing (PMDS). Walter Jehne in his lecture in NITI Aayog in 2019 mentioned that “PMDS through ZBNF in Andhra Pradesh is a Global breakthrough … India’s unique contribution to the World”. PMDS is a system of sowing, tilling and tending the land wherein the farmer grows crops in non-farming seasons or whenever there is no crop cover on the land. This can be practiced before the advent of monsoon, during summer, after Kharif and before beginning of Rabi season. Read Full Report here…