What is organic agriculture?
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Question by Iqbal Hossain: What is organic agriculture?
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Question by Iqbal Hossain: What is organic agriculture?
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Organic faming is the natural and sustainable method of farming with less injuries to mother earth and the operations do justice to the natural principles. Feed the soil…Then soil will feed the life forms ..is the principle behind Organic farming. It is known by different names such as sustainable agriculture, natural farming, Bio dynamic farming, Keyusi farming (Japan), No tillage farming etc.
Ghost Who Walks
October 24, 2011 at 10:42 pm
organic farming is a type of farming that avoids synthetic pesticides. That is not to say that insects, diseases and weeds are not controlled, they just are not controlled through synthetic chemical means.
All organic farms must have a crop rotation plan in effect and that plan must span a minimum of 4 years.
Organic farms must have a soil fertility plan in place. This is perhaps the most important aspect of organic farming-the soil. we take this very very seriously. Organic farmers know the soil is teeming with life and that healthy soil leads to healthy crops and animals which have far fewer diseases than unhealthy stock. Synthetic fertilizers kill the soil life leaving soils essentially dead. This leads to unending use of synthetic fertilizers to keep plants alive but science is finding that crops grown on dead soils are not as nutrient packed as crops grown on lively healthy soils (http://www.organicconsumers.org)
No GMO seeds can be planted or GMO grain fed to livestock
there is a lot more to organic farming see http://www.rodaleinstitute.org
for a lot more information about the nuts and bolts of organic farming.
Ohiorganic
October 24, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Organic faming is the natural and sustainable method of farming with less injuries to mother earth and the operations do justice to the natural principles. It is known by different names such as sustainable agriculture, natural farming, Bio dynamic farming, using natural means of farming e.g not using toxic chemicals and pesticides
Taichi
October 24, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Some of the most non-organic farming is zero-tillage farming.
Now I expect that someone may have invented an organic farming style that uses no tillage… perhaps permaculture or ranching, but when we use the term zero tillage we typically mean that weeds are controlled by herbicides. We often find organic farms heavily dependent on tillage to avoid the use of herbicides.
For crops that are grown with large spaces between hills, like pumpkins or squash, use of mulch to suppress weeds would be an organic adaptation. I am not suggesting that organic and tillage must go together, just that no-till is a term typically used in non-organic farming.
donfletcheryh
October 24, 2011 at 11:53 pm
It certainly looks like a few people here are posting from an organic farming pamphlet.
Organic horticulture refers to a producer opting to not use certain products such as presticides or genetically modified seeds (which is odd since almost all produce has been modified by humans through selective breeding). Organic farming has just as much potential to cause harm to the local environment as commercial growing if the producer doesn’t take precautions to control their nutrient flow. Currently, the USDA and FDA don’t regulate organic production practices to the same degree that commercial production is.
Organic animal agriculture refers to the growth of animals without the use of antibiotics, vaccines, or hormones. Once again, organic animals don’t have to legally meet the same quality that commercially grown animals must.
On the whole, organic farms produce less product per acre which leads to more expensive produce and meat. The health benefits claimed by organic agriculture supporters have yet to be established or proven by a respected, peer-reviewed journal.
Matthew
October 24, 2011 at 11:56 pm
In simple words- Use of ‘NO CHEMICALS’ in any forms from presowing to post harvest.
KaushikP's Quality Input
October 24, 2011 at 11:58 pm