Seed and planting stock should be strictly organic or should be procured from organic sellers. In special case, non-organic planting stock can be used on documentation proof of unavailability of organic seed. Perennial stock can be carried over to organic production as a transition stock but annual plant stock must be organic in any case. (more…)
“An organic farm, properly speaking, is not one that uses certain methods and substances and avoids others; it is a farm whose structure is formed in imitation of the structure of a natural system; it has the integrity, the independence, and the benign dependence of an organism. ‘ − Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land, 1981
The organic farming guidelines include not so complex methods but simple techniques those are harmonious with nature. Actually, in this, the interception level is when the out-sourced help or labor is needed.
1. Soil check
2. Tillage and cultivation
3. Manure application
4. planting stocks
5. crop rotation
6. weeds and pest management
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Organic Farming is the natural way of growing the edible plants and shrubs. This process is not novel or any modified one, but simply it is a back to basics course. A crude definition of Organic Farming is by Codex Alimentarius Commission, a joint body of FAO/WHO “organic agriculture as holistic food production management systems, which promotes and enhances agro-ecosystem health, including biodiversity, biological cycles, and soil biological activity. It emphasizes the use of management practices in preference to the use of off-farm inputs, taking into account that regional conditions require locally adapted systems. This is accomplished by using, where possible, agronomic, biological and mechanical methods, as opposed to using synthetic materials, to fulfil any specific function within the system”.
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