by Editor | Jul 30, 2024 | Reports
Surveys were conducted with 215 NF practitioners and 189 CF farmers across 5 partners in 7 districts in 3 states, to assess the impact of NF on yield, net income, and total cost of cultivation. Additionally, farmers shared their observations on barriers to adoption,...
by Editor | Jul 30, 2024 | Reports
This study is a continuation of the previous impact studies conducted in 2018-199, 2019-20, 2020-2021 and 2022-23 on APCNF. Earlier studies assessed the effectiveness of APCNF (also known as Seed to seed [S2S] Farming) with the help of field surveys on various...
by Editor | Feb 19, 2024 | Reports
The report presents the results of the survey into the impact of Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF or CNF in short) on farming conditions in Kharif 2022-23. This is fifth in the series of similar studies conducted under the aegis of RySS,...
by Editor | Jan 19, 2024 | Reports
The Government of Andhra Pradesh (GoAP) turned to Natural Farming, known as Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF)8, as a way of solving the multiple crises in agriculture. The GoAP have established “Rhythu Sadhikara Samstha” (RySS) which is an...
by Editor | Oct 31, 2023 | Reports
How Natural Farming could feed the future – Agroecology is an integrated approach that simultaneously applies ecological and social concepts and principles to the design and management of food and agricultural systems. It seeks to optimize interactions between...
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...