About us

KS Natural Farms is a privately owned farm, located near Shamirpet, Hyderabad, India(20kms away from Shamirpet ORR). We are from Hyderabad, and have an interest in farming to produce naturally grown food without fertilizers and pesticides.

History

Earlier generations of our family were into natural farming, and used to do sustainable multi crop farming. But, the recent generations have migrated to cities and left farming. Still, some members of our family tree are performing mono crops cultivation using chemicals, which is harmful for us and nature as well. So, after seeing the impact of chemical farming, we have realized the importance of natural farming and started producing crops using natural methods.
 
We love and respect our family members who did farming for decades. Here are few members:

Mission

Natural farming means growing locally available crops in a self-sustainable manner. This will allow crops to accustom with local conditions quickly and grow well so that they do not require any extra care in growth and controlling pests. Moreover, there is no need for chemical inputs. We want to bring back natural farming for good health and minimize the adverse effects of chemical farming. The locally available resources will reduce input costs for farming and avoid dependency on the market without having any harmful impact on nature.

Methods & Practices

Bought land in 2013 near to Hyderabad, and started natural farming using Padmashri Subhash Palekar's (an Indian agriculturist) Subhash Palekar Natural Farming - SPNF principles. We review results and apply own ideas depending on the local conditions.

Certificates

Natural farming training certification

Organic farming

e-Commerce marketing for Agri business

Value addition of minor forest produce

Value Addition of Guava on 16th Feb 2023

Akash Chaurasia Training on Multi layer natural farming - Hyderabad - Feb 2023

Estabishment of Bio-input Resource Centers by NIPHM, Hyderabad in November 2024

Our experience

Our family members and friends support us in various ways to make farming possible, giving us energy, motivation and the strength to overcome various problems.
We do take help and suggestions of the other natural farming experts in solving problems. Also, we attend seminars, meetings, exhibitions to learn and upgrade ourself.

At the same time, we have faced different issues during these years such as disease with crops, heavy rains, drought, electricity problems, water problems, wild animals, labor issues, and issues with neighbouring farmers.

Message to people coming into Natural Farming: We welcome the people who want to do natural farming. If you are new to farming, it may take time to learn and adjust with the farming profession. You should also be more patient as results depend on nature and market. The good thing is you will interact with nature and get a lot of satisfaction, which cannot be experienced in a city life.

Seminars/webinars attended by our team

Crops

We grow main varieties of fruits and vegetables using a multicrop model, and have planted hundreds of plants. Mango and Guava are main crops in the high density model along with other fruits as permanent crops. Vegetables and leafy vegetables are the internal crops in rotation based on season and local conditions.

Fruits:
Mango, Guava, Papaya, Jackfruit, Banana, Sapota(Chiku) Fig, Water apple.

Citrus: Lemon, Dabbakaya, Orange, Amla, Crane berry(Vakkaya)

Vegetables:
Tomatoes, Green Chilli, Brinjal, Lady Finger, Bottlegaurd, Pumpkin(gummadi), Snakegaurd, Broad Beans, Drumstick, Onions, Garlic, Ginger, Yam(Kanda), Taro root(Chemadumpa), Topiaco(pendalam)

Leafy vegetables:
Spinach, Coriander(Kottimera), Mint(Pudina), Amaranthus(Thotakura), Sorrel Leaves/Roselle(Gongura), Chukka kura/Khatta palak, Fenugreek(Menthi), Malabar spinach(Bachalli), Currly leaves, Moringa leaves(Munaga)


Other items: Sugar cane

Dry fruits:
Cashewnut, Badam

Flowers:
Marigold(Banti), Hibiscus(Mandaram), Rose

Wood:
Teak, Malbar neem

Others:
Mehandi, Cotton, Alovera

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Sales & Supply

Our crops are grown using natural farming methods with clean groundwater. We also maintain clean & healthy conditions during harvest, collection, storage and supply.

We sell our crops in the local market, to local agents and our family friends at reasonable prices(not as an organic product high price). Our motto is to provide a healthy environment but not to gain profits.

We supply special and local varieties of furits and vegetables including pickle variety mangoes such as Kothapalli kobbari, Chinna Rasalu and Pedda Rasalu. Others include jackfruits, moringa leaves, curry leaves and mehandi leaves.

Services

We are interested in doing and providing various services related to natural farming like, building Natural farm, Farmhouses, Partnership, Consultancy, Bulk supply & Exports of food items, Agroforest, Forest development and Permaculture.

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Farming is not as simple as manufacturing a product from a factory. It is a continuous process of learning and applying the knowledge. Also, we should keep in mind about the local conditions and environment. Farmers have to make immediate decisions. So, we feel farmers are professionals who deal with nature, crops and market.

We wish all farmers to do natural farming. In this way we can stay healthy and protect the nature.
Happy natural farming.