Inspired by Japanese agricultural scientist Masanobu Fukuoka,
Raju Titus has taken to ‘no-till farming' and flaunting the
results Three kilometres from Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, on
the road to Bhopal, is situated the Titus Farm that proudly
flaunts its fertile expanse of 12 acres and a unique farming
method that can potentially help overcome the worrying suicidal
trend among farmers of the State, and perhaps of the country.
The sole but strong characteristic of the farm that
differentiates it from the rest is the use of natural methods to
grow and to let grow. For the last 25 years, a unique experiment
of natural farming is being practised here by a local farmer,
Raju Titus, who abandoned traditional plough-based and chemical
methods of farming in his farms. He favours farming without
tillage, known as “No-Till” farming. By doing so, Raju attracted
the attention of people who comes from across the country to see
his experiments with natural farming. The unfortunate incident
of farmer suicides that had jolt