Organic farming is a method that aims to cultivate land and raise crops in a way that keeps the soil healthy by using organic wastes. It avoids the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Organic food is produced from a system that does not use man-made chemicals or GMOs. Key aspects of organic farming include maintaining soil fertility, providing nutrients indirectly using soil microorganisms, nitrogen self-sufficiency through legumes and recycling, and pest and disease control relying on diversity and natural methods over synthetic chemicals.

1. (NATURAL WAY OF FARMING)

2. What is organic farming?
Organic farming is a method of crop and livestock production that involves much more
than choosing not to use pesticides, fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, antibiotics
and growth hormones. It is a method of farming system which primarily aimed at
cultivating the land and raising crops in such a way, as to keep the soil alive and in good
health by use of organic wastes.

3. What is organic food?
Organic food is the product of a
farming system which avoids the
use of man-made fertilizers,
pesticides; growth regulators and
livestock feed additives.
Irradiation and the use of
genetically modified organisms
(GMOs) or products produced
from or by GMOs are generally
prohibited by organic legislation.

4. The key characteristics of organic
farming
Protecting the long term
fertility of soils by maintaining
organic matter levels,
encouraging soil biological
activity, and careful mechanical
intervention
Providing crop nutrients
indirectly using relatively
insoluble nutrient sources which
are made available to the plant by
the action of soil micro-organisms

5. Nitrogen self-sufficiency
through the use of legumes and
biological nitrogen fixation, as
well as effective recycling of
organic materials including
crop residues and livestock
manures.
Weed, disease and pest
control relying primarily on
crop rotations, natural
predators, diversity, organic
manuring, resistant varieties
and limited (preferably
minimal) thermal, biological
and chemical intervention

6. The extensive management of
livestock, paying full regard to
their evolutionary adaptations,
behavioral needs and animal
welfare issues with respect to
nutrition, housing, health,
breeding and rearing
Careful attention to the impact
of the farming system on the
wider environment and the
conservation of wildlife and
natural habitats

7. ORGANIC
FARMING
GREEN LEAF
MANURES
VERMICOMPOST
MANURES
CROP ROTATION
BIOLOGICAL
MANAGEMENT
ANIMAL
HUSBANDARY
BIOFERTILIZERS

8. Conventional
Farming
Organic
Farming
Centralization Decentralization
Dependence Independence
Competition Community
Domination of
nature
Harmony with
nature
Specialization Diversity
Exploitation Restraint