Pick and Write [Agricultural Word]👉#19
Another name I'll give to Organic farming is original farming. We didn't start with chemicals, our ancestors know so well about organic farming than we do because that was the only option and I see it as an appropriate agricultural practice.
Healthy soil is what organic agriculture depends on above everything else so you need to make sure the soil is as good as it possibly can. Without healthy soil, there will not be any harvest. You can't use chemical as a way to get things right, then it's no longer organic. Good organic farmers feed their soil. They put in compost and constantly vary the plants growing in each place to restore the richness of soil instead of exhausting it every year, which is just a matter of time till the land stops giving you what you want.
Cover crops stop soil erosion between periods of actual crop cultivation. Such crops help in keeping the rainwater from carrying the fertile topsoil far away. Cover crops also contribute to enriching the soil more than the quick industrial practices. There is much going under the ground.
Assuming you have a number of fungi develop across the surface of your soil. These fungi will secrete a natural binder that helps to store carbon and create the proper environment for root development. Soil is alive and all it needs from you is care.
Pests control happens in a similar way. There will be no need in using aggressive pesticides if the farmer prepares the field in advance. The option he has if he's going full organic is to put some insects on the soil to eat those pests. The ones I see the use a lot is Ground Beetles, Ladybugs and Lacewings.
All the weeds that grow will be collected manually and no one destroys the entire ecosystem just to eliminate pests and weeds. You'll be doing chemotherapy on your soil and that's a bad idea.
Chemical fertilizers and other chemicals used in ordinary agriculture work rather quickly, that's even why they use it in the first place isn't it?
You get speed but you're ruining the soil in the long term making it increasingly dependent on the chemicals you started using. The ground gets exhausted and after some time you'll see you're getting less and less harvest despite the you adding more chemical fertilizer.
Organic agriculture is for the farmer that's focused on the future and patience is the name of the game because at first, you'll will have less produce. You'll do more hard work but it's worth it, it brings rich soil and quality products to you. Ten years later, the farm will be productive, and the soil will remain fertile and capable of yielding harvest.
With the chemical agriculture style, all it's doing is borrowing from the future to support its productivity to day and waste the tomorrow.
This is one of its biggest advantages of organic agriculture, you're making the soil better for tomorrow and that's sustainable farming.
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