A medical couple is amazing in organic farming following zero budget farming near Madurai

Madurai: A medical couple from Madurai is setting an example of ‘zero budget’ farming by cultivating crops including rice and sugarcane through organic farming.

Balaji Thiruvadi is a doctor from Madurai. His wife Kausalya is an ophthalmologist. Along with medical services, they have been farming organically on seven and a half acres of land owned by them in Kallandri near Alagharkoil for the last 5 years.

For this, they are doing ‘Zero Budget’ farming by making natural fertilizers with their own 3 country cows. They are cultivating various crops like coconut, guava, rice, vegetables and sugarcane.

The medical couple said: Although we have been farming since our forefathers, we switched to organic farming after learning about the effects of chemical fertilizers. In zero budget system, we use Drip Irrigation, Soil Fertilization by Goat and Cattle, Natural Fertilizers by Country Cows, Jeevamirtham, Panchakavya etc. and use it for crop cultivation. We buy fish solution only from outside.

In four acres we have grown coconut, guava, guava, banana, groundnut, spring onion and vegetables for daily household needs. We are currently growing and harvesting sugarcane. It is a pleasure to do farming without profit motive and give it to relatives and customers. Thus they said.