Organic farming

WHAT IS ORGANIC FARMING? Organic farming is a technique, which involves the cultivation of plants and rearing of animals in natural ways. This process involves the use of biological materials, avoiding synthetic substances to maintain soil fertility and ecological balance thereby minimizing pollution and wastage.
Producers of organic produce use crop rotation and intercropping to increase yield.
Organic farmers would rotate crops, hand weed, till the soil and mulch to manage the weeds

why organic farming?

Organic agriculture can be a pathway to addressing not only hunger and malnutrition but also other challenges including poverty, water use, climate change, and unsustainable production and consumption.

Advantages of organic farming

organic production helps reduces the carbon dioxide emissions and fight the global climate change.
organic food are healthy friendly unlike conventional products which are harmful to the human body
Organic food virtually eliminates the risk of chemical residues.
In the long term
, organic farms save energy and protect the
environment.
Eating organic food reduces the risk to diseases like cancer and diabetes.
Farmers can reduce their production costs since they don’t have to spend a lot of money on chemicals and fertilizers
Organic foods tastes more good.
Organic farms
promoted biotic abundance, biotic richness, soil carbon, and profitability, but conventional farms produced higher yields.