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...
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...
by APCNF Team | Oct 9, 2022 | Reports
Agroecology and Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture: An Exploratory Analysis with Some Tentative Indications from the Recent Experience of Natural Farming in Andhra Pradesh – Prof. D Narasimha Reddy Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) is a...
by APCNF Team | May 24, 2022 | Reports
PMDS is a global breakthrough. The exact science of PMDS is yet to be determined. The enhancement of soil biology through CNF practices and raising of 8 to 15 diverse crops, as a mixed crops, creates some special conditions for the seed germination and plant survival...
by APCNF Team | May 24, 2022 | Reports
In a true sense, CNF is a paradigm shift in agricultural development in the state and, perhaps, in the country. The findings of earlier studies and the current survey indicate that CNF is able to resolve most of the pressing problems of the farmers and agriculture in...
by APCNF Team | May 24, 2022 | Reports
The analysis in the Kharif report has brought to the fore the parameter required for assessing the impact of PMDS+CNF. The Kharif report revealed that the intensive use of land and labour: controlled use of water for irrigation; mobilisation of capital from own...
