What is Organic?

pesticide-free, additive-free, chemical-free, non-chemical, natural farming is called organic farming.

about organic farming

Organic agriculture is involved with the natural methods like crop rotation, biological pest control, compost etc.

In the process of organic farming, the farmers use fertilizers as well as pesticides by following the dosage limitations strictly. There are different kinds of organic farming systems. The common forms of organic farming include – permaculture, biodynamic farming, Do nothing farming, no-till farming etc.

All these techniques involve cultivation using minimum mechanical equipments. In the current scenario, organic agriculture can be said to be practiced by more than 100 countries in the world.

The policy makers are also promoting organic farming for reasons like – sustaining rural economy, improving soil health, creating good environment etc. In India, organic farming has been in practice for decades. Organic farming is of great importance and there are a number of benefits of organic farming. Some of the benefits can be explained as below –

  1. The food items that are grown by the methods of organic farming are tastier and healthier.
  2. The most important nutrients that humans get from fruits, vegetable and other food items are – calcium, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins etc. Organic farming preserves the nutrients of the food item, which makes us healthier.
  3. In the conservative farming, lot of pesticides and fertilizers are used to protect the crop. But, the amount of pesticides used in this kind of farming is very high.
  4. Due to this, the humans also get affected to the pesticides.
  5. There are a number of pesticides that are highly dangerous for humans.
  6. In organic farming, the usage of pesticides is very limited and hence, people who consume the food items produced from organic farming are at low risk.
  7. Organic farming relies on the breakdown of soil management. Different techniques are used to preserve the nutrients that are taken by the previous crops.
  8. Organic farming is very cost effective compared to the conservative farming. Moreover, this farming is not very tiresome, time taking and difficult.
Hence, the food produced from organic farming results in healthy people, which lead to the healthy country.