文档介绍：What is
Organic Farming?
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Organic Farming
What anic farming?
Organic farming works in harmony with nature rather than against it. This involves
using techniques to achieve good crop yields without harming the natural
environment or the people who live and work in it. The methods and materials
anic farmers use are summarised as follows:
To keep and build good soil structure and fertility:
• recycled posted crop wastes and animal manures
• the right soil cultivation at the right time
• crop rotation
• green manures and legumes
• mulching on the soil surface
To control pests, diseases and weeds:
• careful planning and crop choice
• the use of resistant crops
• good cultivation practice
• crop rotation
• encouraging useful predators that eat pests
• increasing ic diversity
• using natural pesticides
Organic farming also involves:
• careful use of water resources
• good animal husbandry
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A modern approach to farming
Organic farming does not mean going ‘back’ to traditional methods. Many of the
farming methods used in the past are still useful today. Organic farming takes
the best of these bines them with modern scientific knowledge.
Organic farmers do not leave their farms to be taken over by nature; they use all
the knowledge, techniques and materials available to work with nature. In this
way the farmer creates a healthy balance between nature and farming, where
crops and animals can grow and thrive.
To be a anic farmer, the farmer must not see every insect as a
pest, every plant out of place as a weed and the solution to every problem in an
artificial chemical spray. The aim is not to eradicate all pests and weeds, but to
keep them down to an acceptable level and make the most of the benefits that
they may provide.
Combined techniques
On anic farm, each technique would not normally be used on its own.
The farmer would use a range anic