Can organic farming be made sustainable in terms of economics for longer run? Keeping population- demand and supply chain in mind? Can it be affordable and reach out to wider community? Can changes in traditional farming practices be brought by means of organic farming measures and if yes, then what can be done to overcome the impacts of the changes?
i think yes.. traditional farming practices be brought by means of organic farming measures .
Now time to switch for organic inputs but in a phase manner. The research evidence showed that productivity of organic farm reduce in initial two years initially but subsequently at par with inorganic farming. Organic farming is sustainable, there is no doubt in it. There is a need to develop a model/system which can ensure the supply of organic inputs.
Yes, the essence of organic farming is sustainability implemented by traditional organic techniques without the use of chemical plant protection products and chemical fertilizers. In this way, the scale of mass mortality of bees and other pollinating insects poisoned by the use of chemical plant protection products, pesticides would also be reduced. It is also important to develop rainwater retention techniques because the scale of drought increases due to climate change from year to year. More and more climatology data indicate that the global warming process is progressing faster and faster. The result of this process will be more and more frequent drought, melting glaciers, raising the surface of the oceans and seas, reducing the areas of arable fields and those suitable for human life. Climatologists and scientists from other fields of science, conducting research on climate change and its effects, develop long-term forecasts of these changes. Climate disasters appearing more and more frequently as a result of climate change, the global warming process, which is progressing more rapidly, and recently also the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic causing Covid-19 disease, force reflection on the scale of imbalance in nature through the development of civilization and increasingly asked questions : how it is possible to reverse these negative processes, restore balance, reduce environmental pollution, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, develop renewable energy sources, implement sustainable development principles based on the concept of circular economy and / or green economy, etc. How to change the development of civilization to increase sustainability? One of the elements of implementing the principles of sustainable, pro-ecological development is the development of organic farming. Instead of industrial production of agricultural products, organic farming should be developed without the use of chemical plant protection products. Pesticides should be replaced by the introduction to the production of agricultural produce more resistant to viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic crop varieties, which are created using modern biogenetic techniques. In addition, the surface of natural environments, natural biological ecosystems in which insects feed, decreases. It is caused by mowing meadows outside the city and grass in cities. Therefore, it is recommended not to mow the lawn, put insect houses, do not remove rotten, rotting stumps in parks and forests. In some cities, flower meadows are established and insect parks are created in city parks. In this way, the issue of water retention is also improved. Unable meadows do not require watering in the same amount as mowed lawns. Another issue is the development of household electricity production plants operating according to pro-ecological technologies, i.e. based on renewable energy sources. Therefore, e.g. the roofs of buildings on farms should be covered with solar panels and those producing heat energy using solar energy. In connection with the above, it is necessary to increase expenditure in all countries on ecological reforms in order to implement the principles of sustainable ecological development according to the green economy philosophy. There is not much time left to carry out the necessary ecological reforms to avoid a chain reaction of increasingly faster global warming and escalating climate disasters.
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With organic forming, it is difficult to have sustainable
1) Market , as cost of production is more and
2) yield or out come
But we can have sustainable environment and health.
yes, it is a way to sustainable management in case of environment and crop production, but alone I have doubt that it can secure the livelihood and secure the food security of the country.
Organic farming is the approach of better health no for a holistic sustainable.
The present aim of organic farming is to earn profit. So, by cultivating crops already which have a high value such as turmeric, ginger, etc organically will no doubt give us the high profits.
However, organic farming as a concept is intended to conserve the soil and improve the quality of the environment for long term sustainability of the land. This may take few years from 3–5 to stabilize the normal average production. Expecting mere high profit in the form of money by from converting to organic agriculture is a wrong concept by itself.
Organic farming is highly sustainable in the long run and improves the soil and environmental quality by avoiding pollution. And is capable of yielding similarly to and sometimes more than that through conventional agricultural practices.
Expecting extraordinarily profit from organically produced crops can be achieved only by exploiting the market structure and using over smart marketing and advertising strategy.
When it comes to residual toxicity of chemicals in the agricultural produce coming from conventionally grown crop, it is within the safe limits according to various studies and need not be worried about to the extent of the hype created around this concept.
Organic farming can only be made economically sustainable with government financial support.
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