Zero Budget Natural Farming is one of the effective solution, which is harmonious with nature, to reverse the impact of climate change. Elaborate (200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 5 years
KEY POINTS
· To reverse the climate change impact, we need to put 20 billion million tonnes of CO2, each year, into the soil in the form of stable soil carbon.
· There are some measures by which the CO2 can be removed from the atmosphere.
· The IPCC has analysed all the available solutions, of all these, “soil carbon sequestration” and “afforestation & reforestation” are seen to be the most impactful and cost-effective.
· The solution is farming in harmony with nature. The technology has been given by an amazing individual, Padma Shri Subhash Palekar.
· He has called it the zero budget natural farming (ZBNF). It is a miraculous solution to increase organic carbon (OC) in soil by practising farming without using chemical fertilisers and pesticides and yet ensuring that productivity levels remain at the same level while total costs decline substantially.
· This ensures rising farmers’ incomes, thereby overcoming the financial distress in rural sector.
· ZBNF practices can broadly be classified as Regenerative Agriculture. The practices are also called agroecological practices.
· These champion farmers have demonstrated that they can improve their income and welfare levels while at the same time making a paradigm shift that provides real solution to the climate change problem.
· ZBNF achieves carbon sequestration in soil by using traditional methods that have for long allowed a humus rich soil to absorb moisture atmospheric moisture, thereby becoming more resilient to droughts.
SARI 5 years
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IAS Parliament 5 years
Good answer. Try to include the role of carbon sequestration, soil acting as a carbon sink. Keep Writing.
