Dear Forum Farmer Friends, Pomegranate ( Bagava ) farming is under progress in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhrapradesh states from couple of decades as mono crop. Some are successful and some are failure in mono cropping.
From almost same time , pomegranate cropping is done in ZBNF, and it is not successful. Upto my knowledge, none are following ZBNF in pomegranate. In natural farming also , the same situation. In Inorganic farming of pomegranate, both failures and success are hand in hand.
In multi cropping in areka nut,with other crops, ZBNF is very much successful. In the same way, Paddy as a monocrop, in ZBNF/Natural Farming, is very much successful and till day, so many farmers are following ZBNF/Natural farming for paddy farming.
But in Pomegranate , Organic farming is very much successful.
There are advantages in each type of farming and disadvantages also in each type of farming. Some crops do very well in ZBNF,Natural farming, and some not. Some crops do very well in mono cropping and some not. It mostly depends on so many factors.
Here we should not forget the nuton’s law. " FOR EVERY ACTION THERE IS EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION." we feed the required to the plant, the plant gives us the possible yields ,in reciprocation. The farmer gets high yields. No doubt, when the plant is grown in Natural farming / ZBNF farming, its fruits/vegetables will be tasty, disease free and with free expenses, but yield also will be at a low profile. Some likes it and some not. It depends mainly on the needs of the farmer and they can not be generalised, i beleive.
All types of farming have good and bads and we, farmers have to select on their requirements
g.p.rao, farmer