Safalya Gatha: A woman farmer from Mamabhanja village in Dharampur has succeeded in natural farming by reading books

Farmers in remote villages of Dharampur taluka, known as the entire tribal taluka of Valsad district, are also inspiring other farmers by doing natural farming. A woman farmer from Mamabhanja village in Dharampur has inspired farmers by cultivating white musli from natural farming. Meeraben Maganbhai Maldharia, a farmer living in Mama Bhanja village, says that she got training in natural farming in Subhash Palekar's workshop, then started the natural farming of white musli by reading books on natural farming. Earlier, I used to do chemical farming like other farmers, in which fertilizers or pesticides had to be brought from outside, which increased the cost of farming. Chemical fertilizers and medicines seemed to spoil my land because the land was not full or rotten while ploughing and the production was decreasing. With the price of chemical fertilisers and pesticides rising every year, the cost of cultivation was increasing and profits were decreasing. But after the introduction of natural farming, the cost of farming started decreasing and incomes started increasing. Earlier, when I used to do farming using chemical fertilizers and pesticides, my income was Rs 2.20 lakh and expenses were Rs 67,000, but the cost from natural farming was Rs 24,000 while the profit was Rs 1.66 lakh. On the cultivation of white musli by the five dimensions of natural farming on one hectare of land, Meeraben further says that when the seeds of white musli were sown by giving the second leaf, all the seeds were grown. To prepare the field in the white musli crop, the soil was prepared using solid jeevamrit and given jivaamrit with water so that the white root basin was better. Spraying of jeevamrit and solid jeevamrit with water in the white musli crop made the soil fertile, full and rotten.