End of Initiative Report of Agroecology: ICRISAT Longitudinal Impact Assessment of Natural Farming on Soil Health, Microbial Diversity, and their Interconnected Response Functions in Andhra Pradesh

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Fund
cg.contributor.initiativeAgroecology
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.creator.identifierML JAT: 0000-0003-0582-1126
cg.creator.identifierAndre Francois van Rooyen: 0000-0003-2035-049X
cg.creator.identifierShalander Kumar: 0000-0001-8072-5674
cg.creator.identifierRajesh Pasumarthi: 0009-0007-4511-6196
cg.creator.identifierPUSHPAJEET CHOUDHARI: 0000-0002-1825-0986
cg.howPublishedGrey Literature
cg.link.photohttps://www.icrisat.org/storage/file-managers/file-677b9a2373fe81.26586900.jpgen
cg.placeHyderabad, India
cg.reviewStatusInternal Review
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.impactAreaEnvironmental health and biodiversity
dc.contributor.authorJat, Mangi L.
dc.contributor.authorRooyen, Andre F. van
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Ramesh
dc.contributor.authorPasumarthi, Rajesh
dc.contributor.authorChoudhari, Pushpajeet
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-07T15:27:07Zen
dc.date.available2025-01-07T15:27:07Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/168632
dc.titleEnd of Initiative Report of Agroecology: ICRISAT Longitudinal Impact Assessment of Natural Farming on Soil Health, Microbial Diversity, and their Interconnected Response Functions in Andhra Pradeshen
dcterms.abstractThe key component of the initiative focuses on building scientific evidence on the agroecology based natural farming practices carried out by small and marginal farmers from Andhra Pradesh state of India. Agroecology is the foundation of community-managed natural farming (CMNF), formerly known as zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF), which is a form of regenerative agriculture and was launched by the Andhra Pradesh government in 2016. CMNF is focused on giving away with chemical pesticides and fertilizers entirely. The program's objective was to promote the use of all-encompassing natural farming methods to counteract a variety of environmental and financial stresses, including declining soil quality, diminishing water supplies, biodiversity loss, and loss of farmer livelihoods. Natural farming (NF) is a diversified farming system based on agroecology that combines crops, trees, and livestock, allowing for functional biodiversity. It significantly reduces production costs by using indigenous microbial consortiums (IMC) such as Jeevamritha, Ghanajeevamritha, Beejamritha, Panchagavya, etc. substituting chemical fertilizers and pesticides, complemented with intercropping and mulching. Andhra Pradesh community-managed natural farming is highlighted as one of the alternative farming practices for improving farmers’ income, in the present scenario of declining fertilizer response and farm income, and the prevalence of smallholder farmers in India (68.5 percent marginal and 17.7 percent small farmers). With their growing “symbiotic” and "probiotic" understandings of soil and plant life, biological sciences such as ecology, soil science, and microbiology are crucial fields for building resilient farming systems.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceCGIAR
dcterms.audienceDonors
dcterms.bibliographicCitationJat, Mangi L.; Rooyen, Andre F. van; Singh, Ramesh; Pasumarthi, Rajesh; Choudhari, Pushpajeet. 2024. End of Initiative Report of Agroecology: ICRISAT Longitudinal Impact Assessment of Natural Farming on Soil Health, Microbial Diversity, and their Interconnected Response Functions in Andhra Pradeshen
dcterms.extent25 p.
dcterms.issued2024-12-30
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
dcterms.subjectsoil managementen
dcterms.subjectfarming systemsen
dcterms.subjectsoil healthen
dcterms.subjectcropping systemsen
dcterms.subjectnatural resources managementen
dcterms.typeReport

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