by Editor | Oct 31, 2023 | Reports
In 2016, after a new decade of worsening agrarian crisis in India (Vaidyanathan, 2006), the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP: 53 million inhabitants and 9.3 million famers in 2020) initiated the scaling of what came to be known first as Zero Budget Natural...
by Editor | Oct 31, 2023 | Reports
True Cost Accounting Study of Community Managed Natural Farming in Andhra Pradesh. Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) is a state-wide agro- ecological transformation of the farming practices of its 6 million farmers over 6 million hectares and 50...
by Editor | Oct 31, 2023 | Reports
The current study is a continuation of the Assessing the Impact of APCNF studies for 2019-20, and 2020-21, undertaken by Institute for Development Studies Andhra Pradesh (IDSAP), Visakhapatnam. This is the third interim report of 2021-22 study, covering the Rabi...
by Editor | Feb 23, 2023 | Reports
Recently RySS made one of the major breakthroughs in Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) in the form of the Pre-Monsoon Dry Sowing (PMDS), a novel method of growing crops. PMDS enables farmers to raise crops in the dry seasons – before the...
