Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver a video-conference address to a Natural Farming Conclave on July 10, 2022, at 11:30 a.m. As part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, the Prime Minister urged at least 75 farmers in each village to adopt a natural farming method in his speech at the Gujarat Panchayat Mahasammelan in March 2022.
Surat District undertook a concerted and coordinated effort to sensitise and motivate different stakeholders and institutions in the district, such as farmer groups, elected representatives, talathis, Agriculture Produce Marketing Committees (APMCs), Cooperatives, Banks, and so on, to help farmers adopt Natural Farming.
As a result, at least 75 farmers in each Gram Panchayat were identified and motivated to engage in Natural Farming. Farmers were trained in 90 different clusters, totaling over 41,000 farmers trained across the district.
The conclave will be held in Surat, Gujarat, and will include thousands of farmers and other stakeholders who have made natural farming a success story in Surat. The Governor and Chief Minister of Gujarat will also attend the conclave.
About Natural Farming:
The Union government has begun to promote the concept of natural farming as an initiative that will work to make farming more sustainable as well as improve farmers' income by lowering input costs, among other things.
The goal of natural farming is to shift agriculture practices away from mono-crops and toward a diversified multi-cropping system. Beejamrit, Jivamrit, and Ghanjivamrit are organic fertilizers made from cow dung and urine.
Other traditional practices, such as mulching the soil with biomass or covering the soil with green cover all year, experts say, ensure sustained productivity even in the first year of adoption.
