A.

P - transformation through ‘Zero-Budget’ Natural Farming:

Farmers, Citizens, Environment and future generations –
HRD Institute - 10th July 2019

T Vijay Kumar, I.A.S ( Retd)

Advisor, Agriculture, Govt of A.P
AP: India’s Leading Agrarian State

Contributes 28% to Diversified cropping

state GSDP systems

62% of population
employed in 2nd longest coastline
agriculture & related – 974 km
activities

India’s largest
producer of fruits,
Rice Bowl of India eggs & aquaculture
products

8 million ha Horticulture
cropped area 1.4 million ha
 Agriculture and Food Crisis
Farmer Distress
High Cost of Cultivation
(Seeds, Fertilizers, Pesticides)
Prolonged Dry Spells,
Droughts, Crop Failures

Drying of Borewells

Unseasonal Rain,
More Frequent Cyclones
Problems of Tenants, Rural-Urban
Distress Migration

Market Uncertainty
Agriculture and Food Crisis
Consumer Food Plate

Food Scarcity
Chemical Residues
Lack of Nutrients
Health Hazards
 Agriculture and Food Crisis
Soil Degradation

Lack of water storage

Loss of top soil
capacity

Reduced tree cover Decreased biodiversity

Heatwaves

FAO warning: Only 60 more harvest years

 Climate Crisis
Global Warming
 Climate Crisis
Global Warming
 Climate Crisis
Global Warming
 Climate Crisis
Global Warming
 Climate crisis
The relentless rise of carbon dioxide

11 May 2019 – 415.26

First time in human history

Source: NASA, Global Climate Change Source: R F Keeling, S. J Walker, S.C Piper, A. F Bolienbacher
Role of Agriculture in GHGs – 24% Steady loss of soil organic
matter - only 60 harvest years

Burning forests
Deforestation
and Crop residues

Keeping lands
Ploughing
Fallow

Wind and Water

Excess Irrigation
Erosion

Biocides –
Chemical fertilizers
and pesticides
 Climate injustice - disproportionate burdens
Stealing the
future of
children in
front of Children
their very
eyes

Landless
Agriculture
Workers

Women
 IPCC 1.5 SR: Warning
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Oct 2018

To limit warming at 1.5oC,

governments and private
businesses must make
unprecedented changes, on a
sweeping global scale, in:
UN Chief Executives Board Meeting, 09 May 2019

• energy systems Joint Appeal: UN Calls Upon Member States

• land management to Pursue Ambitious Climate Action
• building efficiency
• industrial operations We have 12 years to limit climate
• shipping and aviation change catastrophe, warns UN
• city-wide design
 Climate solution - drawdown
Carbon: emissions and drawdown

CO2 Emission
Half Life 10 Billion Tons =
100 years 1000 crore tons/year

Humus Drawdown
Stable Carbon 10 Billion
tons/year
500 to 2000 years
20 Billion
tons/year

Source: R F Keeling, S. J Walker, S.C Piper, A. F Bolienbacher

Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate
Change
(IPCC)
 80 calibrated
solutions to
reverse global
warming
Regenerative Agriculture
could result in reduction of
23.2 gigatons of carbon
dioxide, from both
sequestration and reduced
emissions.
Best Agriculture practices to Reverse Global Warming

Regenerative Conservation Tree Multistrata

Silvopasture
Agriculture Agriculture intercropping Agroforestry

Farmland System of Rice Nutrient Farmland

restoration Intensification Management Irrigation
 Nutrient Cycling in Natural Farming

40% of Plant Sugars stored

in Above Ground Biomass

30% of Sugars stored in Roots

30% of Sugars moves into

the Soil as Exudates,
feeding vast microbial
population that makes
plant healthy

Image courtesy: Natural Resources SA Murray-Darling Basin YouTube channel

 40% of Plant Sugars stored
in Above Ground Biomass

30% of Sugars stored in Roots

1 gm carbon = 8 gm water
30% of Sugars moves into
Nutrient absorption mechanism the Soil as Exudates,
feeding vast microbial
population that enable
Mycorryzha – soil structure exchange of nutrients and
water, and carbon
Micro aggregates – porous soil 60 % air sequestration
 ZBNF enables these processes efficiently

Soil Aeration

• Water infiltration
• Water holding
• Water vapour
harvested for
irrigation

there are Rivers in the air – air contains 10 times the water in the
rivers
 ZBNF is farming in harmony with nature – it is a
transformational technology

Mother nature has solutions to all these problems

Farmers’ Freedom
welfare Youth welfare Environment
from hunger
•Reduced costs and •More food, safe food •Reverse migration to •Enhanced soil health,
risks, increased yields, and nutritious food villages water conservation,
regular income, climate
regenerated coastal
change resilience
ecosystem, biodiversity.

Safeguarding our collective future

ZBNF incorporates all the recommended best Practices for Climate Change
Adaptation - Four Wheels of ZBNF
ZBNF has a critical
role in soil carbon
Results sequestration,
apart from its
all other benefits
Beejamrutham Jeevamrutham Achhadana Waaphasa
Microbial seed coating Enhance soil Ground to be kept Fast buildup of soil
through cow urine and microbiome through covered with crops and humus through ZBNF
dung -based an ‘inoculum’ of cow crop residues as leading to soil
formulations dung, cow urine and mulching aeration and water
other ingredients vapor harnessing
 Other Principles and Practices in ZBNF

Use of ‘indigenous’ All inputs to be

Botanical Minimal tillage –
cow – for cow-dung ground becomes soft made within the
extracts – for
and urine. One cow is
pest and porous with ZBNF village – nothing
enough for cultivation practices
management should be
of 30 acres
purchased from
outside
The cost of production of the main crop is recovered from the income from the short
duration, inter crops ( 3rd wheel) – hence the name ‘Zero budget’ Natural farming
 Locally made, cow-dung based formulations and botanical extracts

Beejamrutham Cow dung Cow urine Lime Water

Cow dung Cow urine Jaggery

Ghana
Jeevamrutham Uncontaminated
Pulse flour
Soil

Cow dung Cow urine Jaggery

Drava
Jeevamrutham Uncontaminated
Pulse flour Water
Soil

Neemastram Agniastram Brahmastram Botanical extracts for Pest management

Collaborations for Establishing the Science behind ZBNF

Soil organic matter increase

Water saving & Harnessing

Rythu Sadhikara Samstha
water vapor

Research
Savings in Energy
Champion
farmers
ZBNF Coordinator
s, and,
and NFFs farmers Senior
Scientists Resilience to Droughts &
Cyclones

Nutrient and Carbon

Dynamics

National Institutions
University IIS, IISS, IITB, TERI Microbial diversity in inoculants
of Reading
 AP ZBNF Programme at a glance

Target
10 lakh farmers
Poverty eradication 6034 Villages
through women
solidarity seeded in 523,000 farmers
SERP 20 years ago. 3015 Villages
2005 onwards - NPM 40,656 farmers 163,000 farmers
972 Villages 200,000 Ha.
and CMSA - through 704 Villages
women self help groups
– N.G.O support

Seeding

20 years ago 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20

 AP ZBNF Programme at a glance
Social Profile of Existing 5.8 lakh ZBNF farmers in 3011 villages

Category Farmers

46%
Scheduled Caste 97,613
17% 11%

Scheduled Tribe 66,362

Schedule Castes Schedule Tribes Backward Classes
Backward Class 2,67,483

Other Category 1,36,846

24% 2%
Minority 10,429
Total 5,78,733
OC Minorities
 AP ZBNF Programme at a glance
Coverage in 2019-20

Particulars 2018-19 2019-20 Coverage

target
No. of Mandals covered 664 664 100%

No. of G.Ps 3015 6034 47%

No. of Women SHGs 1,41,361 2,50,000 34%
9%
No. of farmers covered in (2018-19) 5,23,000

No. of farmers to be covered in (2019-20) 10,00,000 17%

 AP ZBNF Programme at a glance
Funding from: RKVY, PKVY, Government (GoAP, GoI)

Funds Received Rs. cr Funds for Scaling-up 2019-20 Rs. cr

Year RKVY PKVY Total Proposed Funds from WB-funded APIIATP for initiating the work 261
2015-16 34.04 18.34 52.38 in additional 827 GPs (up to two years).
2016-17 45.91 13.3 59.21
2017-18 38.38 10.93 49.31 Proposed Funds IFAD-funded APDMP for initiating the work in 104
2018-19 63.00 90.32 153.32 additional 330 GPs (up to two years)
Total 181.33 132.89 314.22
Plan for 2019-20, 20-21 Rs. cr
Proposal to Bilateral Agency, KfW, through DEA, MoF for scaling 2,479
Year RKVY PKVY Total
up in 1,778 GPs for 5 years
2019-20 186.64 134.65 321.29
(Loan Agreement by Dec. 2019)
2020-21 320.00 134.65 454.65
AP ZBNF Programme at a glance
Funding from: Philanthropy (APPI)

APPI Funds for technical support

Year

2017-18 to Rs. 22.88 cr has been released

2018-19 out of 100 cr committed over 5 years
 Pillars of APZBNF Model

Commitment Knowledge Extension Ownership

State Subhash Champion Women
Government Palekar Farmers SHGs

ICT for Knowledge, Tracking, Traceability Collective Action for Inputs, Models, Marketing
Saturation: Farmers » Farms » Practices
Women in Natural Farming: Our biggest Strength Commitment of
State Government
AP ZBNF Model

Principles by
Subhash Palekar
Extension by
Champion
Farmers
Ownership of
Women SHGs

ICT for Knowledge, Tracking, Traceability Collective Action for Inputs, Models, Marketing
Saturation: Farmers » Farms » Practices

Programme
Management,
transparency

Collective
Action

1,62,624 women SHGs and their 7,106 Federations are in charge Peer Learning

Farming Plans,
and,
consumption
plans

Inclusive of
the poorest
 Champion
AP ZBNF Model

Commitment of Principles by Extension by Ownership of

State Government Subhash Palekar Champion Women SHGs
Farmers

Farmers ICT for Knowledge, Tracking, Traceability Collective Action for Inputs, Models, Marketing
Saturation: Farmers » Farms » Practices

5,600 Community Resource Persons

@ 1 per 100 famers

284 Young Agriculture Graduates

as Natural Farming Fellows

Inspiration

Knowledge
Transfer

Handholding

Video
Dissemination

Farmer Field
Schools
 Saturation Approach
1st Bio-village in 3 years - Kondabaridi
Each farmer takes 3-6 years
to adopt all practices and In 5-6
Each Village takes 3 years cover entire holding.
to reach all farmers.
years,
Year 3: full area a village
becomes
a
Year 2
‘BIO-
> 80% VILLAGE
farmers
50% Year 1
farmers

15% Year 5/6

farmers
35
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3

All Villages All Farmers All Farms All Practices

 Farmer’s Graduation
S2S + 3rd
Wheel

S2S + S2S Indigenous

Whole Seeds,
Farmer
S2S
[Beejamrutham,
Ghana, Drava,
Chemical Kashyams 365
Partial DGC,
RFSA, 5-
layer

Year 0 Year 3 Year 3 to Year 6

 Emphasis on Mainstreaming Poorest of Poor

Special Plan for 1.52 lakh Landless Agriculture Labour

Target: Household food and nutrition security
incomes: At least Rs.10,000 per month

Kitchen Garden Facilitate Land Lease

Development of Assigned Special Roles (ZBNF shops,

Lands Seed Supply, Services)

Off-farm
(backyard poultry, fish-farm ponds)
 ZBNF IMPACTS
RySS Assessment
Yields - Kharif 2018
Crop Cutting Experiments
Yield Non
Irrigated/ Yield ZBNF
Crop ZBNF in % Change
Rainfed in kgs/ha
kgs/ha

Paddy Irrigated 5643 4932 14%

Groundnut Rainfed 2109 1573 34%
Cotton Rainfed 995 906 10%
Maize Irrigated 5962 4929 21%
Ragi Rainfed 2710 2091 30%
 ZBNF IMPACTS
RySS Assessment
Costs - Kharif 2018 (Rs/ha)
Crop Cutting Experiments
Non-
Crop I/RF ZBNF % reduction
ZBNF

Paddy Irrigated 35,739 43,507 18%

Groundnut Rainfed 42,197 49,866 15%

Cotton Rainfed 29,467 42,206 30%

Maize Irrigated 8,502 12,004 29%

Ragi Rainfed 13,662 17,610 22%

 ZBNF IMPACTS
RySS Assessment
Net Income - Kharif 2018
Crop Cutting Experiments
Crop ZBNF (Rs./ha) Non-ZBNF (Rs./ha) % Increase in ZBNF
Paddy 59448 39457 51%
Groundnut 61077 33437 83%
Cotton 39239 13222 197%
Maize 26005 17844 46%
Ragi 59200 26294 125%
Best Cases in 2018
Crop ZBNF Yield Non-ZBNF Yield Percentage Notes
(Kgs/acre) (Kgs/acre) Change

Guli Ragi 1250 450 178 % Farmer: Trimurthulu, Ananthagiri

Mandal, Vishakapatanam
SRI Ragi 1320 450 193 % Farmer: K Pandanna, Paderu,
Vishakapatanam
Sama 717 350 104 % Farmer: P Sonnu, Araku,
Vishakapatanam
SRI Paddy 2350 1550 52 % Farmer: Paradani Jogi Raju (farmer),
Emaduguala mandal, Vishakapatanam
Coffee 103 67 54 % Farmer in D Gonduru, Kadagaputu,
Vishakapatanam
Cotton 557 360 54 % Farmer: K Ganapathi, Duddukhallu,
Vizianagaram
Cashew 900 600 50 % Farmer: K Santa Kumari,
Rampachodavaram, East Godavari
2 acres of land Farming since 15 years Chemical farming
• Community Resource Person encourage to
take up ZBNF
• Took ZBNF paddy on 0.25 acres as
experiment
• Phenomenal result achieved
• Encouraged by this, took back leased land
to do ZBNF in all 2 acres
Non ZBNF Paddy
Cost of cultivation per acre(Rs.) 20,500
Gross income per acre (Rs.) 47,250
Net income per acre (Rs.) 26,750
Unviable Adverse health Left farming leased land
ZBNF changing lives
Mandal Maheswari
Sobhandhripuram village
Krishna District
Farmer &
Community Resource Person
• Bought cow for input preparation
• Discuss ZBNF with her SHG member
• Grounded ZBNF kitchen garden
• Provides free ghanajeevamrutham and
vegetable to villagers
• Phenomenal community presence,
selected as community resource
person
ZBNF Paddy
Cost of cultivation per acre (Rs.) 13,200
Gross income per acre (Rs.) 61,425
Disability is not inability Net income per acre (Rs.) 48,225
 Impact on Health

Improved Increased
health of Food,
farmers Nutrition
and their and Health
families Security
Biodiversity
Climate Change Resilience: Titli Cyclone, Oct 2018
Paddy fields during Titli cyclone

Non ZBNF ZBNF

ZBNF Non ZBNF
Climate Change Resilience: Pethai Cyclone, Dec 2018

Banana Banana

Chillies Chillies Paddy

 Drought Resilience
Kharif 2016 Season – Drought Year
Net increase in
696 kg/ha ZBNF; 100% increase in Costs reduced by income in a drought
342 kg/ha Non-ZBNF yield; Rs.17500/ha. Rs.2500/ha. year, Rs.20,000/ha

Kharif 2017 Anantapuramu – Kharif 2017 - Kondapuram, Gudur Mandal, Kurnool

Groundnut crop condition after 29-day dry spell Non Z.B.N.F Plant Struggling to revive from 30-day dry spell

ZBNF Non ZBNF ZBNF Non ZBNF

ZBNF plot withstands dry spell,

has 3 to 4 inflorescence with
double the number of berries
per ear head

Rayalseema received
cumulative rainfall of 91.6
mm as against the normal
rainfall of 168.1 mm from
June 1 to July 31 2018
Drought Resilience – Kharif 2018
296 Mandal Anantpur, Chittoor ZBNF emerged Pre-monsoon sowing
declared as Drought and Kurnool worst as a silver lining as a strategy initiated
hit in early kharif hit. Kadapa received withstanding for drought proofing
season of 2018-19 scanty rainfall dry spells. through ZBNF

Tadkanpalli cluster, Kurnool – Tammaraju cluster, Kurnool

Jowar crop after 20-day dry spell Non Z.B.N.F Redgram Plant with no root nodules as compared to ZBNF
Red Gram with abundant root nodules

ZBNF Non ZBNF

ZBNF Non ZBNF

ZBNF

Non ZBNF
Variety of ZBNF paddy seedlings Balapanuru ZBNF Non ZBNF
Non ZBNF cluster thriving in spite of low rainfall
ZBNF
 Drought proofing through ZBNF

Pre-monsoon sowing
• Sowing before Monsoon
• May last week
• Effectively utilize the moisture
available in the atmosphere

May 2018

Experiments began with 11 young

Natural Farming Fellows practicing
pre-monsoon sowing
Vishnu Vardhan Reddy,
Natural Farming Fellow
BSc. Agriculture

Land preparation: Ploughing through tractors Application of ghanajeevamrutham: 400 Navdhanya treated with mixture of ash, cow
urine and asafetida to promote microbial
kgs/ acre
coating of seeds

Pre-monsoon sowing in Anantapur, 21 May 2018- On Dry Soil

Broadcasting of Navdhanya seeds (Dry 2 ton groundnut/ Bajra husk for mulching Ploughing leveling and broadcasting of
sowing) material to cover the soil land
 Timeline- Rainfall & Dry Spell in this Pre-monsoon Field
Rainfall Dry Spell

5 days 150 mm 306 days 28 Jan 19

100
90
90 mm
80
20 Sept 18
70
04 Aug 18
60
50
25 May 18 20 July 18
40 30 mm
30 20 mm
20 5 mm 5 mm
10
0
1-May 21-May 10-Jun 30-Jun 20-Jul 9-Aug 29-Aug 18-Sep 8-Oct 28-Oct 17-Nov 7-Dec 27-Dec 16-Jan 5-Feb 25-Feb 17-Mar

55 14 46 129
days days days days
 25th May 1st Rainfall 5 mm drizzle 4th day after sowing

29th May 5th June

Emergence of seedlings Emergence of crops

8 Days After sowing #Rains so far 1 15 Days After sowing #Rains so far 1
4 Days after last rain (5 mm) 11 Days after last rain (5 mm)
17th June 8th July

Germinated crops could withstand dry Establishment of sesame crop

spell of 22 days #Rains so far – 1 (5mm) #Rains so far – 1 (5mm)
1st July 13th July

Establishment of crops jowar and bajra Healthy Green Cover

#Rains so far – 1 (5mm) #Rains so far – 1 (5mm)
 20th July 2nd Rainfall 5 mm drizzle 56 days after sowing

1st August

Sesame plants became nesting points for birds

Nearly 10 nests seen in the vicinity
#Rains so far: 2 (10 mm)
 4th August 3rd Rainfall 20 mm

5th August 6th September

#Rains so far: 3 (30 mm) #Rains so far: 3 (30 mm)

 20th September 4th Rainfall 30 mm

14th October 19th December

Redgram dominates after sesame harvest Field beans covers the ground
#Rains so far 4 (60 mm) #Rains so far 4 (60 mm)
 5th January ’19

Castor and field bean still green with

good growth. Flowering started for #Rains so far 4 (60 mm)
field bean in December.
 28th January’19 5th Rainfall 90 mm
14 March’19 30 March’19

Red gram crop harvested and is again and Field Bean crop with lot of ground cover with
is in flowering stage live crop and leaf litter
#Rains so far 5 (150 mm) #Rains so far 5 (150 mm)
 Drought proofing through ZBNF

Dry sowing
• Sowing during dry-periods
• Dry situations regardless of regular monsoon
• Helps to maintain year-round ground cover in all
districts

1405 Farmers and Field Functionaries undertook

Dry Sowing in 891.5 acres during 2018-19 across
the state
 Dry Sowing emerged as a model for Post Kharif Sowing
(inspired by Pre-monsoon sowing results demonstrated by 11 NFFs in Anantapur)

August September October November December January February March

2018 2018 2018 2018 2018 2019 2019 2019
• Prakasam - • Kurnool - 54 • YSR Kadapa - • Chittoor - 30 • Vizianagaram • Srikakulam - • Nellore - 6 • Guntur - 7
11 farmers farmers 128 farmers farmers - 54 farmers 62 farmers farmers farmers
• Chittoor - 30 • EG - 8 • Vizag – 62 • Guntur – 38 • Nellore - 4
farmers farmers farmers farmers farmers
• WG - 4 • Chittoor - 16
farmers farmers
• Krishna - 38 • Vizag - 1
farmers farmer
• Anantapur – • Krishna- 36
816 farmers farmers

11 84 994 30 54 124 44 64
 Results of Dry sowing 20 September
Narayanaswami 2-3 mm drizzle
Varli village
Palvoi cluster
Anantpur 6 Nov 18
16 Sep 18

1-acre dry sowing

Rainfed land 18 October

27 Nov 18
Seeds 10 24 mm rainfall
varieties, Seed rate:
8 kgs

4 Dec 18 10 Jan 18
 Cost of Cultivation Income
Activity Quantity Amount (rs.) Crop Yield/acre Value (Rs.)
Land preparation 1 acre 400 Bajra 42 840
Jowar 80 2000
Ghanajeevamrutha 400kgs 600
m Green gram 18 720
Polycrop seeds 10kgs 400 Cowpea 35 1750
Mulching 1 tonne(own 800 Field bean 40 1600
straw) Sesame 15 2400
Labour 2(self labour) 300 Foxtail millet 15 300
Harvesting - 400 Castor 18 1440
Transport - 300 Horse gram 80 3200
Total 3200 Field bean 50 2000
Castor 25 2000
Total 18,250
Total income – 18,250/-
Net income - 18,250 – 3200 = 15050/-
Cost benefit ratio – 1 : 5.7
0.90 acres of land for 22 Jan 26 Jan 27 Jan 30 Jan 7 Feb 27 Feb
dry sowing Germination of
Sowing of seeds Mulching with
Provided light Applied 600 kgs of all seeds sown Sprayed 200 litres
Black soil with bullock Crossandra
irrigation ghanajeevamrutham except finger dravajeevamrutham
drawn seed drills residue
millet
10 Types of seeds: 3 5 mm drizzle
cereals and 7 pulses
More number
(4.5 kgs all type)
of birds and
Mixed previous crop bees in the
residue to land in soil field

Jowar and
G Chiranjeevi
bajra used
Kondaveedu village
for fodder
Solasa cluster
purpose
Guntur

Sesame, sunfl
ower and
cowpea
harvested for
consumption
purpose
 2 Jan’19

10 Jan’19
20 Dec’18 24 Dec’18 18 Jan’19
Youth in ZBNF

Teacher 50 kgs of
SPNF since 3 Shallow ploughing
turned ZBNF Ghanajeevamrutham
years
farmer

Ready to take Dry sowing in

Brown top millet +
up challenge 0.12 acres in Paddy husk from last
Sorghum as border
on field Dec’18 Mahalakshmanudu season used as mulch
crop
Vadlamanu village
Agiripalli cluster , Nuzividu
Krishna District

28 Jan’19 09 Feb’19 19 Feb’19 21 Feb’19 24 Mar’19

 Cost of cultivation and income
Activities Cost (In Rs.) Activities Income (In Rs.)
Ploughing 200 62 Kgs Brown Top 9300
Seeds 75 millet (1 kg: Rs.150)
Inoculants 100 10 Kgs Sorghum 500
Labor 400 Gross Income 9800
Tractor 200
Harvesting 300 Net income for 0.12 acres for 90 days
Miscellaneous 100 crop on dry sowing: Rs. 8425
Total investment 1375
 Drought proofing through ZBNF

365-Days Green Cover

• Sowing before monsoon and sowing during dry-periods
• Effectively ensuring year-long green cover.

22,428 farmers in 7,839 acres enrolled to

experiment both pre-monsoon and dry-
sowing in what evolved as ‘365-days green
cover’
 Drought proofing through ZBNF: 2019-20
Number of Farmers as on 15th June’19
DISTRICT April'19 May'19 June'19 Total
Srikakulam 131 444 8 583
Vizayanagaram 82 512 421 1015
Visakhapatnam 6 145 181 332
East Godavari 90 927 9 1026
West Godavari 272 442 15 729
Krishna 135 352 5 492
Guntur 36 437 414 887
Prakasam 10 332 434 776
Nellore 21 328 70 419
Chittoor 10 600 70 680
Kadapa 25 691 1265 1981
Kurnool 18 219 526 763
Anantapur 69 684 22 775
Grand Total 905 6113 3440 10458

10,458 Farmers undertook pre-monsoon sowing in 2043.8 acres

during 2019-20 across the state with average land coverage of 0.2 acres
Rainfall/Irrigation Timeline: Bollapalli, Gummanipadu Cluster, Guntur
Total Irrigation/ Rainfall

3 days 37.5 mm
10

9 6 June’19
8 33 mm
7

5
22 May’19
4

2 April’19 17 April’19 2.5 mm

3

2 2 mm
1

0
1-Apr-19 11-Apr-19 21-Apr-19 1-May-19 11-May-19 21-May-19 31-May-19 10-Jun-19

15 35 15
days days days
 1 2

Broadcasting Seeds

Applying Ghanajeevamrutham 3

Guntur
0.15 acres 02 April 2019
Seed varieties
Jowar | Foxtail millet | Pearl millet | Bajra
Red gram | Green gram | Black gram
Horse gram | Bengal gram | Cowpea
Mustard| Sesamum
Internal Community Resource Person Koti Reddy
Spreading Straw Mulch
 5

Vegetative Stage

4 6

Seed Germination Stage Grain Filling Stage

Dry sowing plot on 11 June 2019
Rainfall/Irrigation Timeline: Chadepirala, Chadepirala Cluster, Kadapa
Total Irrigation /Rainfall

5 days 13 mm

12 May’19
5 5 mm

29 April’19 11 May’19 15 May’19 26 May’19

2 mm 2 mm 2 mm
2 2 mm

27 April’19
0
26-Apr-19 1-May-19 6-May-19 11-May-19 16-May-19 21-May-19 26-May-19 31-May-19 5-Jun-19 10-Jun-19

12 days 3 days 11 days

 1 2

Seed treatment
and making pellets
Applying Ghanajeevamrutham
3

Kadapa
0.15 acres 27 April 2019
Seeds varieties
Finger millet | Bajra | Green gram | Black gram
Horse gram | Cowpea | Castor

Internal Community Resource Person: Rolla Sulaka

Spreading Groundnut Mulch
 Day 18 Day 32
Day 46
Seed Germination Stage Vegetative Stage Grain Filling Stage
Dry sowing plot on 12 June 2019
 Cost Structure in 6 years (5 years implementation + 1 year preparatory)
for one farmer

# Categories COSTS (in Rs.) %

Capacity building [ZBNF Knowledge dissemination,
1 Extension, Capacity Building and Human Resource 15,511 56%
Development ]
Women and Men Farmers’ Institution building and funds
to farmers’ institutions, Support in establishing markets
2 7,600 27%
(inter-village, inter-cluster, inter-district) using farmers own
institutions
ICT, PGS Certification, Quality Assurance, Tracking and
4 3,750 13%
Monitoring
Technical Support and Overall Programme Management at
5 1,050 4%
the District and State levels

TOTAL 27,911

Cost to convert one farmer: 27,911 over 5-6 years

Benefits of Scaling up ZBNF in India

Food, Nutrition and Health Security

Employment

Rs 13 worth direct benefits

Soil Health & water security
Rs 1  Cost Reduction
investment  Risk reduction
Coastal eco-system regeneration
 Higher Yields
 Better Prices
Bio Diversity

Climate Resilience
Cost of Implementation:
It takes Rs.27,911 per capita over 5-6 years Ecosystem & Health Benefits to citizens
for a farmer to adopt ZBNF 78
 Farmers Outreach and Transformation

2019 2020 2021 2022 2024 2027

• 50% GPs • All GPs • 350 Bio • Enrolling • 3,000 bio • All bio
entered entered villages all farmers villages villages
emerge in the state emerge • Transformin
• 1,000 Bio g all 60 lakh
farmers to
villages ZBNF
emerge

All Villages All Farmers All Farms All Practices

National Recognitions for APZBNF
NITI Aayog, Govt of
India has commended
the Government of
Andhra Pradesh’s ZBNF
strategy

Himachal
Pradesh, Karnataka, R
ajasthan States have
visited AP and are
interested to adopt
 Global Recognitions for APZBNF
UN General Paris Peace Forum: Global Alliance for the
Assembly AP ZBNF is selected Future of Food has
Event, ZBNF as as top 10 projects selected AP ZBNF as
case study was that will receive one of the 21
discussed as part scaling up support ‘Beacons of Hope’
of south-south
collaboration, 24
Sep 2018
Indonesian Ministerial
delegation visited AP to
learn about ZBNF

World Future
Council selected
AP ZBNF as one
of the top 30
most promising
policies in
agroecology
 2019 – 20 : APZBNF at National level

Union Ministry of Agriculture is AP’s support to Other States in India

seeking technical support from
Andhra Pradesh for National Expressed interest:
Mission on ZBNF Bihar
Jharkhand
Indian Council of Agriculture
Madhya Pradesh
Research invited AP to be part of Chhattisgarh
National Committee to assess
the impact of ZBNF
 2019 – 20: APZBNF in International fora
United Nations UN Agencies (WFP, UNEP, CBD, WHO, IFAD, FAO, UNDEP)
Climate Change Summit September jointly approved the Scaling up Agroecology Initiative work
2019 plan for 2019-2020. Mexico, Senegal and India (specifically the
region of Andhra Pradesh) selected for the first phase of
Andhra Pradesh ZBNF Model is implementation – Launch in October, 2019.
being showcased
Global Environment Facility has
approved the proposal submitted
by UN Environment India to
provide technical support to AP
Govt – in 2020 -21

United Nations Convention to

Combat Desertification invited
Hon’ble Chief Minister of Andhra
Pradesh (2 September 2019)
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