The government claims that if input cost is decreased, farmers will not need to take loans and with zero inputs, they will only earn from their crops without spending anything.
Jalandhar: THE PUNJAB government has asked agriculture offices across all 22 districts to register 150 farmers each for ‘zero budget natural farming’ to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, after getting a letter from the Centre on the same.
Farmers however say that to implement ‘zero budget farming’, they need a lot of financial support from the government because yield would go down drastically in the initial years.
The government claims that if input cost is decreased, farmers will not need to take loans and with zero inputs, they will only earn from their crops without spending anything.
Such farming is being done in parts of some states including Karnataka. However, in Punjab, where the per hectare consumption of fertilisers is highest in the country, farmers are skeptical about how this would work, and how such large scale area can be brought under it. “We are going to enroll 150 farmers from various villages of Jalandhar district under zero budget farming,” said Jalandhar Chief
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