by ryss_admin | Aug 26, 2025 | Reports
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...
by ryss_admin | Aug 26, 2025 | Reports
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,...
by ryss_admin | Feb 11, 2025 | Reports
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...
by ryss_admin | Jan 22, 2025 | Reports
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...
by ryss_admin | Jan 22, 2025 | Reports
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...
by ryss_admin | Jan 4, 2025 | Reports
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...
by APCNF Team | Oct 16, 2024 | News
An 8 member team from NITI Aayog, led by Sri. Ramesh Chand, visited Natural Farming fields in the Krishna and Eluru districts to explore the APCNF model implemented by Rythu Sadhikara Samstha under the Department of Agriculture. During their two-day visit, they aimed...
by APCNF Team | Sep 17, 2024 | News
A delegation from Mexico, currently visiting Tirupati district, praised the significant role played by women’s groups in implementing the natural farming programme run by the Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming (APCNF) initiative.
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...