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Sai Abhinay Chepuri is riding the tech wave to revolutionise farming and help farmers
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There is a need to adopt scientific methods for quicker, more efficient practices and higher yields.
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Sai Abhinay Chepuri is riding the tech wave to revolutionise farming and help farmers
At a time when farmers’ issues are taking centrestage, 20-year-old Sai Abhinay Chepuri is trying to see how technology can help rejuvenate agricultural practices through his enterprise Enviropromise, which was established in December 2019.
Sai Abhinay Chepuri is trying to see how technology can help rejuvenate agricultural practices through his enterprise.
Andhra Pradesh In 2020 Marked By Welfare Schemes, Promises Kept Dec 30, 2020, 17:58 IST
AMARAVATI: For the State of Andhra Pradesh the year 2020 began with a series of welfare ranging from the scope of YSR Aarogyasri being widened and ending with the distribution of house site pattas to poor and in between there was much more than what any normal bygone year would offer.
Smooth rolling of welfare activities, Corona pandemic redefining lifestyle and altering dynamics of sustainability, calamities, natural and otherwise that have left a trail unpleasantness, passing of landmark legislations, legal tangles, gas leak, outbreak of a mystery ailment the year has seen it all and the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government has dealt with each issue effectively.
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The importance given to this form of agriculture has a strong rationale behind it.
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman first mentioned Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) in the budget of 2019-20. Since then, it has become a buzzword in Indian agriculture. Supporting the government initiative on natural farming, NITI Ayog s Vice Chairman, Rajiv Kumar tweeted in support of the farming practice. This idea was further reiterated in February during the budget speech of 2020. It thus holds relevance for Indian farmers and its citizens as a whole.
ZBNF was originally promoted by agriculturist Subhash Palekar, who developed it in the mid-1990s. It is an environment friendly substitute for the chemical fertilizer driven Green Revolution of the 1907s and 80s. It is basically a form of agriculture that uses natural pesticides instead of chemical pesticides. The farmers will use earthworms, cow dung, plants, excreta, etc. The farmers need not purchase fertili