Natural agriculture farming is a system where the laws of nature are applied to agriculture farming practices. This method works with the natural biodiversity area, encouraging the complexity of living organisms, both plants, and animals that each particular ecosystem to thrive along with food plants.
similarities between natural farming and organic farming:
- Natural and organic both are chemical-free and more or less poison-free farming methods.
- Both systems discourage farmers from using any chemical fertilizers, pesticides on plants, and in all agriculture practices.
- Both farming methods encourage farmers to use local breeds of seeds, and native varieties of vegetables, grains, pulses, and other crops.
- Organic and natural farming methods promote nonchemical and homemade pest control methods.
A key difference between natural farming and organic farming:
- In organic farming, organic fertilizer and manure like compost, vermicompost cow dung manure, etc.are used and added to farmlands from external sources.
- In natural farming, neither chemical nor organic fertilizer is added to the soil.
- organic farming still requires basic agro practices like plowing, writing, mixing of manures, weeding, etc.
- Organic farming is still expensive due to the requirement of bulk manures, and it has an ecological impact on surrounding environments.
- There are many working models of natural farming all over the world, the zero budget natural farming is the most popular model in India.
