The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) launched an agroecology-based programme JIVA that will promote natural farming under its existing watershed and wadi programmes in 11 states.

• JIVA aims to ensure using the principles of agroecology long-term sustainability and transform the pre-existing social and natural capital, and nudge the farming community towards natural farming as commercial farming cannot work in these regions.
• NABARD will invest Rs 50,000 per hectare under this programme. The JIVA programme will be implemented on a pilot basis in 25 projects across 11 states covering five agroecological zones.