A look at the results — financial, environmental and personal — of thirteen years of natural farming.
Held in Puducherry, Farm Fest 2025 awarded V. Vetrichelvan top honours for multicrop natural farming — recognition for consistent, chemical-free practice built up since 2012.
Return on investment more than doubled compared to Vetrichelvan's earlier chemical farming methods on the same land.
Through training programs and seed bank initiatives, these natural farming techniques have spread to farmers in seven different countries.
The original plot in Puducherry remains the working proof of concept — multi-crop, chemical-free, and financially self-sustaining.
Vetrichelvan's farm proved something many chemical-dependent farmers doubt is possible: that reducing input costs and increasing yield aren't opposing goals. By focusing on soil health, biodiversity and water efficiency, his farm became both more sustainable and more profitable — not despite going chemical-free, but because of it.
That proof is what made the training programs and seed bank initiatives credible enough to spread internationally, reaching farmers in seven countries who were looking for exactly this kind of evidence.
"Sustainability and profitability can go hand in hand — this farm is the proof, not just the argument."
— On the results of the Vetri Multicrop modelReach out to learn how to bring natural farming to your own land.
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