Yogic farming: A new cognitive fertilizer

Abstract

Sustainability today is the need of the hour. To feed the ever increasing population with scarce resources and without causing any irrepairable damage to the fragile ecosystem, we need to go for out of box solutions. Yogic agriculture represents a tectonic shift from the conventional chemical intensive food production systems to a more reliable, ecologically safe and environmentally sound food production system. It represents a unique form of farming that combines thought-based meditative practices with methods of organic agriculture and is bringing clear economic and social benefits to smallholder agrarian communities in India. It is based on the principle that in the same way as people can feel good or bad vibrations from one another; seeds will also react to thoughts exposed to them. The data collected from Kolhapur, Maharashtra revealed that tomato crop (Namdhari 2535 variety) grown by Yogic process gave energy equivalent to 27.47 Kilocalories and vitamin C equivalent to 14.9mg/100 grams. This was very high when compared to the tomatoes obtained by chemical process which gave energy equivalent to 19.50 Kilocalories and vitamin C equivalent to 6.05 mg/100 grams. Research findings from several field trials in India indicate that of the three treatments viz OFM-1 (Organic farming techniques), OFM-2 (organic + meditation) and CFM (Chemicals and fertilizers methods); OFM-2 i.e. organic + meditation has the greatest soil microbial population, the seeds germinate up to a week earlier.