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Making and maintaining the agriculture into a profitable business in the context of increasing population, food security and depleting natural resources is a very complex problem. Providing contamination free food with rich nutrition is an immediate and future challenge besides maintaining soil and environmental health. Ecosystem based Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) recommends the use of organic crop rotation, compost and green manure, organic pest control etc. as well as mechanized farming operations. The present article discusses the importance and practicality of ZBNF on the basis of available literature. Its benefits and consequences are far-reaching. Hence an attempt has been made to describe the ZBNF system, its utility and sustainability for Indian agricultural conditions. The four major components of ZBNF; such as Jivamrit, Achchhadan, Bijamrit and Vapasa etc are reported to be very cost-effective. In addition to the description of these, discussions on natural insecticidal measures, major benefits and challenges of ZNBF have also been included. The need has been felt for the necessary policy interventions in the absence of detailed published scientific research literature and hence, a few salient points have been discussed. This discussion will be a contribution in taking Indian agriculture a step forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The livestock has always been a prime factor contributing mainly in economic development of a nation. The estimate from study reveled that there are 39.87 percent cow and 49.04 percent buffaloes in district Dewas. An increasing trend is observed in number of buffalo breeds on the contray it is decreasing for cow beeds. The growth rate in milk production is 9.14 percent till 2007-08. Imbalance feed and fodder to milch animals may be the one of the reasons for poor growth rate of milk production. A farmer has to bear an annual average cost of Rs. 12912.32 and Rs. 52875.30 for keeping a single cow and a buffalo respectively and the net profit out of this is calculated to be Rs. 5272.00 and 17539.95 respectively. Though different enomalis exist in animal husbandry and farmers have to losses still it is a profitable enteprise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Present experiment was conducted during the year 2006-07 in sandy loam soil at department of soil science and agriculture chemistry. Udayapratap College farm, Varanasi (U.P.) Result revealed that application of sulphur had significant and beneficial effect on all the growth and yield attributes as compared to control. Among all the treatments T7 was found significantly superior over others. An increase in percentage of oil content along with its constituents like oleic acid, lenoleic acid and decrease in erucic acid content was registered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]