Agriculture
- Organic Gardening And Farming
Organic Gardening and FarmingOrganic growing strives to produce healthy soils and plants through practices that replenish and maintain soil fertility. Organic farmers avoid the use of synthetic and often toxic fertilizers and pesticides. At the beginning...
- What Is Organic Gardening?
Organic gardening is not just a matter of replacing chemicals such as artificial fertilizers and pesticides with more natural products, as it is often simplistically described. There is a great deal more to it than that, in both theory and practice.Basic...
- The Essentials And Principles For Transformation To Organic Agriculture
Change Request: In order to make sustainable agriculture and eco-systems to achieve optimum results, it would be in crop production and livestock has all the elements necessary to organize agricultural management to establish a dialogue among diversity....
- Organic Agriculture
Organic farming, while the safety, environmental, social and economic goals through the use of agreed to step up food production, including various. As an essential element in order to produce a rich organic fertilizer, soil fertility conditions, and...
- What Is Organic Farming?
Organic farming management relies on developing biological diversity in the field to disrupt habitat for pest organisms, and the purposeful maintenance and replenishment of soil fertility. Organic farmers are not allowed to use synthetic...
Agriculture
ORGANIC GROWING
The organic movement broadly believes that crops and ornamental plants should be produced with as little disturbance as possible to the balance of microscopic and larger organisms present in the soil, and also in the above-soil zone. This stance can be seen as closely allied to the conservation position, but with the difference that the emphasis here is on the balance of micro-organisms. Organic growers maintain soil fertility by the incorporation of animal manures, or green manure crops such as grass?clover leys. The claim is made that crops receive a steady, balanced release of nutrients through their roots; in a soil where earthworm activity recycles organic matter deep down, the resulting deep root penetration allows an effective uptake of water and nutrient reserves.
The use of most pesticides and quick-release fertilizers is said to be the main cause of species imbalance, and formal approval for licensed organic production may require soil to have been free from these two groups of chemicals for at least 2 years. Control of pests and diseases is achieved by a combination of resistant cultivars and ?safe? pesticides derived from plant extracts, by careful rotation of plant species, and by the use of naturally occurring predators and parasites. Weeds are controlled by mechanical and heat-producing weed-controlling equipment, and by the use of mulches. The balanced nutrition of the crop is said to induce greater resistance to pests and diseases, and the taste of organically grown food is claimed to be superior to that of conventionally grown produce.
The organic production of food and non-edible crops at present represents about 5 per cent of the European market. The European Community Regulations (1991) on the ?organic production of agricultural products? specify the substances that may be used as ?plant-protection products, deter-gents, fertilizers or soil conditioners? (see pages 148 and 194). ?Conventional horticulture? is, thus, still by far the major method of production and this is reflected in this book. However, it should be realized that much of the subsistence cropping and animal production in the Third World could be considered ?organic?.
The use of most pesticides and quick-release fertilizers is said to be the main cause of species imbalance, and formal approval for licensed organic production may require soil to have been free from these two groups of chemicals for at least 2 years. Control of pests and diseases is achieved by a combination of resistant cultivars and ?safe? pesticides derived from plant extracts, by careful rotation of plant species, and by the use of naturally occurring predators and parasites. Weeds are controlled by mechanical and heat-producing weed-controlling equipment, and by the use of mulches. The balanced nutrition of the crop is said to induce greater resistance to pests and diseases, and the taste of organically grown food is claimed to be superior to that of conventionally grown produce.The organic production of food and non-edible crops at present represents about 5 per cent of the European market. The European Community Regulations (1991) on the ?organic production of agricultural products? specify the substances that may be used as ?plant-protection products, deter-gents, fertilizers or soil conditioners? (see pages 148 and 194). ?Conventional horticulture? is, thus, still by far the major method of production and this is reflected in this book. However, it should be realized that much of the subsistence cropping and animal production in the Third World could be considered ?organic?.
- Organic Gardening And Farming
Organic Gardening and FarmingOrganic growing strives to produce healthy soils and plants through practices that replenish and maintain soil fertility. Organic farmers avoid the use of synthetic and often toxic fertilizers and pesticides. At the beginning...
- What Is Organic Gardening?
Organic gardening is not just a matter of replacing chemicals such as artificial fertilizers and pesticides with more natural products, as it is often simplistically described. There is a great deal more to it than that, in both theory and practice.Basic...
- The Essentials And Principles For Transformation To Organic Agriculture
Change Request: In order to make sustainable agriculture and eco-systems to achieve optimum results, it would be in crop production and livestock has all the elements necessary to organize agricultural management to establish a dialogue among diversity....
- Organic Agriculture
Organic farming, while the safety, environmental, social and economic goals through the use of agreed to step up food production, including various. As an essential element in order to produce a rich organic fertilizer, soil fertility conditions, and...
- What Is Organic Farming?
Organic farming management relies on developing biological diversity in the field to disrupt habitat for pest organisms, and the purposeful maintenance and replenishment of soil fertility. Organic farmers are not allowed to use synthetic...