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The indiscriminate use of fertilizers and plant protection chemicals to increase the yield potential and to save the crops from insect pests and diseases respectively, no doubt, has doubled or tripled or more our total food production, but has also created a number of health hazards and deteriorated the agro-ecosystem badly. This situation has compelled us to switch over organic farming to cultivate valuable crops for healthy and safer foods. Today, the organic ...
Organic farming uses the earth's natural resources for sustainability. It follows the principles of nature, which are self-sustaining developing systems and promised maintenance of soil fertility and control of pests and disease by enhancing natural processes and cycles in harmony with the natural environment. It avoids use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers and growth hormones, antibiotics or gene manipulation. Based on this concept, ...