What is Organic Farming? | Agriculture | Biology | FuseSchool
As populations have grown, farming practices have become more intensified to maximise crop yields and ensure we can feed the ever growing population. Fertilisers and pesticides are used on crops, and animals may be kept inside in more densely packed sheds to maximise milk yields, or egg production, or speed up the time needed for the animal to be ready to be sent to market for meat.
An alternative to conventional farming is organic farming.
Organic farming currently accounts for about 1% of agricultural land worldwide. It focuses on sustainability and is thought to have less detrimental effects on the environment than conventional farming. This has led to it being proposed as an alternative to conventional agriculture for helping to overcome the climate change crisis we are currently experiencing. The debate continues, as it is not a perfect solution.
In theory, organic farming should not use chemical fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides or feed additives for livestock. It requires the farmer to use more natural alternatives. This results in lower yields, but the farmer can sell their produce at a higher price because consumers believe the produce is of a higher quality.
Instead of fertilisers, manure is used. This recycles waste and improves the soil structure. However, it is smelly and more difficult to apply than chemical fertilisers, and also means the farmer has less control over the mineral content they are putting into their soils.
Crop rotation is used to reduce disease building up in the soils and to strengthen the soil composition. Certain crops, such as the legume family – so peas and beans, fix nitrogen from the air and increase the nitrates in the soil. This makes the soil much more fertile, and so farmers rotate legumes with their other crops. Growing multiple crops is however less efficient and produces lower yields than specialising in one or few crops however.
Instead of using herbicides, weeding is the preferred organic farming technique. This is of course much more environmentally friendly because it is chemical free but it is very labour intensive. Although this does mean more jobs available, which is a great thing.
Organic farming is thought to maintain the biodiversity better than conventional farming because fewer chemicals are used. There are more bumble bees and insects in an area because pesticides haven’t been used. Weeds and non-crop plants can grow as herbicides aren’t used. Biodiversity benefits the food chain across all levels, from the plants up to the foxes.
These are the theories of organic farming, and is how we farmed for the one hundred thousand years before the industrial revolution. It is generally thought that organic farming is much better for biodiversity, and also produces a healthier product because less chemicals are used on it.
In the second video on organic farming, we will look at some of the problems of organic farming, and the reality of what it means to be an organic farm.
Part 2: https://youtu.be/QpkKW45cHaA
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Being a safety scientist, I realised quite early that the major cause of most diseases and disorders is none other than chemicals.
That is why I am starting a 100% natural organic farming project in India.
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I tolerated the 2 billion population comment but stopped watching at "[Organic fertilsers are] smelly and more difficult to apply." Pure propaganda video this.
Genetically Modified Organism (GMO)
In other words –
Organisms (plants and animals) with artificial genetic mutations, artificial chemical fertilizers, hormones, pesticides added various poisonous foods are poisoning the human mind and body.
The more toxic the human body and mind, the more toxic the environment will be.
We do not want to eat any poisonous food.
We always want to eat natural organic safe food.
Therefore, natural organic safe food should be given the highest priority in the distribution of production in all areas.
This is our highest demand!
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ORGANIC FARMING FOR BEGINNERS
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Big Corporate farms are taking over. They don't till the land anymore. They spray everything to kill it. 2020 the honey bee population is down 40%. Where I live you just don't see many insects anymore. Very few birds. Bird population is way down. They spray to kill the bugs and then the birds eat the dead bugs and the birds die. and it just keeps trickling down the line. It's all about the greed of the big companies that produce the spray. Greed is killing the world. If you don't believe it just watch Ag phd. Look at all the chemicals the farmers are using. Then we the people eat what they produce? Yuck. I drive around the country and look at all the death where everything is brown, DEAD, no living thing. People need to wake up! Big corporate companies are destroying mother earth by their greed.
This is future of agriculture.
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The general health of populations is connected to farming and how it is treated, and there is much improvement in that field to do. Health connections from farming should be basic tasks that science is working on, and trying to achieve better solutions for food production in the poor countries. The health risks and situations also exist in there, and not only in industrious western countries. Farming would provide solutions on how to live better, and how to lead a wiser and a better functioning society.