What: Government is implementing Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Padhati (BPKP) as a sub scheme of Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) since 2020-21 for the promotion of traditional indigenous practices.

About the scheme:

• Emphasizes on exclusion of all synthetic chemical inputs
• Promotes on-farm biomass recycling with major stress on biomass mulching; use of cow dung-urine formulations; plant-based preparations and time to time working of soil for aeration.

About Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana:

• An elaborated component of Soil Health Management (SHM) of major project National Mission of Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA).
• Organic farming is promoted through the adoption of the organic village by cluster approach and PGS certification.
• Fifty or more farmers will form a cluster having 50-acre land to take up the organic farming under the scheme.
• The produce will be pesticide residue free and will contribute to improving the health of the consumer.