KRISHAN KUMARPATHANIA, GAURAV2022-01-182022-01-182021-12https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810180957Abstract Natural Farming is suggested as a neoteric approach to improve both traditional and modern agricultural practices, which aims to safeguard the environment, public health and communities. Farmers in Himachal Pradesh historically relived on natural farming as per their subsistence farming operation. The present study has been conducted with the purpose to examine the possible of farmer’s to determine the perception of farmers about zero budget natural farming and to study the constraints perceived by farmers about zero budget natural farming. The area of present study has been the Gohar, Chachyot block of district Mandi in Himachal Pradesh. The sample size of present study has been 70 respondents. The data has been collected with the help of structured and pre-structured questionnaire. The findings revealed that 98.6 per cent respondents are engaged with natural farming and the rest 0.4 per cent respondents are into organic and chemical farming. The study concluded that we need a system which eliminates the synthetic fertilizers, additives preservatives and replace them with organic inputs.EnglishPERCEPTION OF FARMERS ABOUT ZERO BUDGET NATURAL FARMING IN CHACHYOT BLOCK OF MANDI DISTRICT, HIMACHAL PARDESHThesis