Subhash Palekar is an Indian agriculturist who practised and wrote many books about Zero Budget Spiritual Farming. He practised Zero Budget Natural Farming and didn’t use any chemical pesticides to cultivate. He conducted many workshops all over India.He was awarded India’s fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2016.
About Subhash Palekar
Subhash Palekar was born in 1949 in a small village Belora of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra in India. He was educated in Bachelors Degree in Agriculture at Nagpur.During Collage Education he was working with tribals about their problems in Satpuda Tribal region. In 1972 he joined his ancient agriculture with his father. His father was a natural farmer. But after learning chemical farming in the collage, he started chemical farming in his farm. While practicing from 1972-1990, he was writing articles in media also. He was attracted to the philosophy (Indian ancient thinking) of the Vedas, Upanishad’s, and all ancient Grantha’s. His Spiritual background inspired by Saint Dhnyaneshwar, Saint Tukaram & Saint Kabir. He was searching for the absolute truth. Meanwhile, He studied the Gandhi & Karl Marx and done their comparative study. Then, he found that Karl Marx’s thinking is not so near to the truth as of Gandhiji. He found that Gandhiji’s philosophy is too much nearer to truth i.e. nature. Marx has denied the nature’s owner ship law.When, he heard that, in Russia during Communist movement, thousands of farmers were killed.Then, he confirmed that, there is no alternative to Gandhiji’s philosophy, which was based on the truth & nonviolence. Great Indian personalities like Gandhiji, Shivaji, Jyotiba Phule, Vivekananda and Tagore had built up his thinking infrastructure towards absolute natural truth and nonviolence (Satya & Ahinsa). Since 1972-1985, while practicing the chemical farming, his agricultural production was continuously increasing. But, after 1985, it started declining. He was surprised that, if he is following the technology of chemical farming i.e. Green revolution totally, then why the production was decreasing? After searching the causes for three years, he came to the conclusion that, Agriculture science is based on the false philosophy.Some thing is wrong with Green revolution. Then he had started searching alternate technology to chemical farming.
