Organic Farming
Organic farming is the form of agriculture that relies on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost and biological pest control. Organic farming uses fertilizers and pesticides but excludes or strictly limits the use of manufactured (synthetic) fertilizers, pesticides (which include herbicides, insecticides and fungicides), plant growth regulators such as hormones, livestock antibiotics, food additives, genetically modified organisms, human sewage sludge, and nanomaterials.
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... Rodale became the force behind organic farming’s mainstream popularization and birth as a social movement in the United States ... practical advice in his startup magazine, Organic Farming and Gardening ... now the Rodale Institute to begin an era of regenerative, organic farm-scale research ...
... See also Sustainable agriculture Proponents of organic farming say that "conventional" farming is unsustainable, because it relies on artificial inputs (synthetic fertilizers and other chemicals ... In contrast, organic farming often utilizes intercropping, crop rotation, fallow periods, and integrated pest management to promote biodiversity and preserve the health ... The main goal of organic farming is sustainability, so organic farms seek to minimize dependence on outside resources and be self-sufficient ...
... Organic agriculture and gardens belong to most of the children's villages ... farmed in accordance with the national guidelines for organic agriculture ...
... Trewavas and other critics contested the notion that organic agricultural systems are more friendly to the environment and more sustainable than conventional farming systems ... Borlaug asserts that organic farming practices can at most feed 4 billion people, after expanding cropland dramatically and destroying ecosystems in the process ... Borlaug and his co-authors advocated using organic matter in addition to inorganic fertilizers in soil fertility management, but opposed advocating only organic agriculture for the ...
... Organic produce makes up 1.5% of Israeli agricultural output, but it accounts for 13% of agricultural exports ... Israel has 70,000 dunams (70 km2) of organic fields Vegetable crops grown in open fields account for 65% of the land use, fruit orchards - 25%, hothouse ...
Famous quotes containing the words farming and/or organic:
“The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given moment in the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)