Organic agriculture will grow?
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Question by elbojuan: Organic agriculture will grow?
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Jonathan V
October 28, 2011 at 4:47 pm
only if you want the world to starve.
cowboy blue
October 28, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Organic agriculture requires more land (up top 6 times as much) to produce the same tonnage of crop as modern mechanised farming.
If organic grows, the need for more agricultural land will grow.
This is already happening, and rainforests are being cleared to produce organic crops (as production costs are high, most organic food is grown in the third world – hence rainforest clearing).
If we were to feed the whole world’s population organically, then we would need more than one planet to accomodate the required agricultural land.
Maybe you were thinking only the priveliged few would be tasting the delicacies of organically produced food?
Valmiki
October 28, 2011 at 5:41 pm
It is not a question of will organic farming will grow. Organic farming is growing at a rapid rate and it is growing all over the world. Will it ever take over conventional farming? No, not in our life time or our grand-children’s. But organic farming is attracting ever more of a select crowd that are looking for chemical and pesticide free food and are willing to pay extra to get it and dedicated growers who are willing to do whatever is required to produce it.
john h
October 28, 2011 at 6:40 pm
organic is growing with the younger generation who is willing to pay the price for a food that requires more intesively raised techniques.
but the government will refuse to believe our conventional food systems are wrong or bad for our health…therfore, we’ll never be 100% organic
how does uncle sam come out and say “ya know for all the years we allowed synthetic fertilizers and herbicides and pesticides, we ruined the water supply, we put your health at risk and we now admit we were wrong”
can you imagine the lawsuits?
TPooT
October 28, 2011 at 6:42 pm
organic agriculture surely is becoming more and more popular as more people preffer it over “sinthetic” produce but, it will in no way out do the later
Saint Michael
October 28, 2011 at 6:58 pm
Organic agriculture will definitely grow. One reason that it will grow is because people believe organic food is better. Farmers also like organic farming because the receive higher returns on their products. Organic farming is very interesting and is worth researching
j s
October 28, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Organic agriculture requires more land than standrad farming practices to produce the same biomass. this is mainly because Organic farming is limited in the amount of aviable nutrians on the ground at anyone time (15kg per Ha) hense more land is needed. That is the only real difference!!!!!!!!
Therefore if you want to stop Organic farming, educate people to what it really is about, and the trend will stop. But in my view this is a benfit more than anything else, yes the produce is more costly but so is the management and most inportantly it keeps England farming.
As with the production of organic food is grown in the third world countrys, it normally isn’t organic.
Farmer
October 28, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Of course it will grow.We are back to the the original farming that is our ancestors were doing.The concept of organic farming is growing day by day.Our future lies in it.
skpsbp
October 28, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Thats a load of sh**e sorry manure.
monty
October 28, 2011 at 8:40 pm
I can only agree with all those who say that organic cultivation has no place for the majority of people. It has become an elitist form of agriculture supplying those who are rich enough or stupid enough to believe that the ‘regular’ farming community is trying to poison us all.
Targeted applications to maximise production are the order of the day so we can try to feed the world efficiently and effectively – and we all know we can’t do that now even with the way we use the land we have.
Organic farming uses land inefficiently with low outputs.
Cutting down forests to grow organically is irresponsible in the extreme.
We need to grow more food on ever decreasing parcels of land therefore GM is the only way we will ever be able to feed ourselves in the future.
Our grandchildren and their children will starve if they have to rely on organic farming.
(Anyone want to get me going on cutting down the rain forests of the world to grow biofuels?)
Mark W
October 28, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Organic agriculture is expensive. If a farmer does not have more than enough financial access, then organic farming wont work.
It’s too tedious. It requires more land. It needs more time. The release of organic minerals to the soil is a process that you cannot hasten so its a dream best realized on your children or grandchildren’s times although you incorporated it (assuming you went into organic farming.)
Back when I was in Uni, the college taught us everything we should know about organic farming and always, we’d ask our profs if they do/would practice organic farming and what irony when they’d all the time say, NO.
I’ve been to a lot of farms (both organic and conventional) and I have yet to see an organic farm run by a barely-making-ends-meet kinda farmer. The organic farms I went to were owned by rich people (who owns conventional farms as well – for the general public) who’s organic farms are for their family’s sole consumption.
Dee
October 28, 2011 at 9:11 pm