Pune: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that her government will promote Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) to reduce cost of production of farmers and thereby double their income. Subhash Palekar, who coined the word ZBNF, has been asked by 6 state governments to train their farmers on his techniques. However, in his home state of Maharashtra, a considerable number of followers have returned to practicing chemical farming as they failed to improve their incomes with ZBNF.

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