Natural farming completely depends on natural capital (natural resources) and ecosystem services for crop production and crop protection. The recycling of natural resources (such as water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) in the natural farming agroecosystem ensures conservation of natural resources and gradual increase in natural wealth.
Mixed harvesting of fruits and seeds and their sorting, grading and detection of damage by insect pests and diseases needs specialised experience of the workers and equipment such as digital sensors and sophisticated machines.
The idea of natural farming creates contradictions, confusions and conflict with conventional agriculture and with the vested interest of the industries. People usually mix up between natural farming and organic farming, natural control and biological control, direct marketing and regulated markets. Farmers were made to believe that non-farmers are wiser than farmers in agricultural knowledge, tillage is essential for clean cultivation, poisons are the medicines of agriculture and agriculture is not possible without debt.