Importance and Benefits of Organic Agriculture

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Today I will love to share with you the reasons I love Organic farming and why I can encourage my fellow farmers to do same.
A lot of us only think agricultural is just about having a hoe or machete to till the soil. Many classify it as a dirty job and the few that love to do it have interest but on their output. This have pave the way for too much use of chemicals to produce our food and these in return have destroy our environment, reduce food quality and so much affect our health and that of micro organisms.

Application of fowl dropping to improve crop yield.

The population is fast growing and there is need for sustainable approaches to produce quantity and quality food. Unfriendly farm practices like the use of chemicals only intend to increase food production but put more pressure on world issues like;

• Changes in climate
• Biodiversity lost
• Soil erosion
• Pollution
  With efforts to solved the above mention problems, farmers are bugging to practice Organic farming. Even though the Organic agricultural land is increasing, it still occupies but just 1% of total agric land.

Organic farming is special because it depends on unique values which are base on sustainable and natural management practices. Organic farming is not al about farming techniques but the belonging of connecting with nature.
The main reason of organic farming is to creat an environmental friendly, social and economic food sustainable chain. This is because the practice is base on agro-systems and not synchronized farming systems. With natural farming, there is high use of advanced techniques and local practices.

Organic farming has its own principles and it varies from one country to another and they include;

• Principle of health: The farming type practice increases the health of all organisms.
• Principle of Ecology: Here the farming is intended to protect the environment.
• Principle of Fairness: The farming type provide nature management skills in environmental resources so as to produce quality food.

Farmers who engage on organic agriculture are those saving lives because the wellbeing of people depend on them to decide with what they produce in terms of quality. They increase and protect natural resources for the coming generation. This is through their practices like;

• Rotation of crops
• Management of Organic nutrients
• Growing cover crops
• Dependency on nature predators
• Weeding
• Spacing of crops and
• Recycling of decay matter.

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