About Bhartiya Prakratik Krishi Paddhati (BPKP)

The Zero Budget Natural Farming has been renamed as Government started promoting Natural Farming since 2019 through a sub-scheme- Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Paddhti (BPKP)under an umbrella scheme of Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojna (PKVY). BPKP was aimed at promoting traditional indigenous practices which gives freedom to farmers from externally purchased inputs and islargely based on on-farm biomass recycling with major stress on biomass mulching, use of cow dung-urine formulations and plant based preparations in exclusion of all synthetic chemical inputs directly or indirectly. Under BPKP the financial assistances were provided for 3 years @ Rs. 12,200/ha.

Components of BPKP

1. Deployment of manpower and management cost for 1000 ha Block level implementation of programme including data management and uploading (@ Rs 4,500/ha for 3 years)
2. Cluster formation and Capacity building including exposure visits, and trainings of field functionaries (@ Rs 3,000/ha for 3 years)
3. PGS certification & Residue analysis (@ Rs 2,700/ha for 3 years)
4. Incentive to farmers as DBT (reduced from 31,000/ ha to Rs. 2,000/ha)
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Present status of BPKP Project proposals:-

The proposals under BPKP are received from following States

Sl. No.	States	Released date	Area in Ha	Amount released (Rs in lakh)
1.	Andhra Pradesh	30.09.20	100000	750.00
2.	Chhattisgarh	09.12.20	85000	1352.52
3.	Kerala	30.09.20	84000	1336.60+618.33*
4.	Himachal Pradesh	24.12.20	12000	286.42
5	Jharkhand	02.12.20	3400	54.10
6.	Odisha	02.02.21	24000	381.89
7.	Madhya Pradesh	16.02.21	99000	787.64
8.	Tamil Nadu	16.02.21	2000	31.82
	Total		409400	5599.32

All these projects are in various stages of implementation.

Keeping in view of the acceptance and Government’s vision to promote natural farming as mass movement, the BPKP is being up-scaled and renamed as “National Mission for Natural Farming.

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