Organic farming is very much popular. World population is nearly 7.8 billion now a days. So is it possible for the organic farming to ensure the food security of these 7.8 billion people?
No, organic farming cannot feed the world.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0259-5
No, organic farming cannot feed the world.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0259-5
Organic food is healthy and alot of more research and effort required to make organic food as food security....
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Organic agriculture can combat desertification by decreasing erosion and improving water uptake and retention. Organic agriculture also helps to increase resistance to pests and diseases, which is crucial to building food security
Yes, definitely. But not the commercialized /globalised trade in monoculture organics which may be as unsustainable as non organics. Instead, we need to rethink our entire food system to make it more resilient. We need to make steps to promote regenerative, agriecological practices, food sovereignty and community empowerment.
Yes, it contributes alot. It cuts off the production cost while still maximizing the produce. Myself have changed to organic farming and it produces more.
Organic Agriculture contributes to food security by a combination of many features, most notably by:
Increasing yields in low-input areas
Conserving biodiversity and nature resources on the farm and in the surrounding area
Increasing income and/or reducing costs
Producing safe and varied food
Being sustainable in the long term
Organic Agriculture should be an integral part of any agricultural policy aiming for food security.
No Organic Farming will not be able to supply enough food for the growing world population.
Organic farming is good and also it's bad effect is it hamper to ozone layer
Highly probable, Organic farming is not a single standalone approacH. It can benefit from many crop rotation and protection techniques. If it is managed properly (in terms of increasing farm labor) or we mixed it with other approach (regenerative farming), there is high chance of producing the same amount of yield in the short-term and of course keeping farm and its workers healthy in the long-term.
Highly improbable to provide complete "food security" especially toward the food availability component. Population growth races ahead of global output/productivity; hence, the justification for intensification/efficiency of production.
However, organic farming has a significant role to the global panacea of food insecurity
Organic farming can help in attaining the QUALITY SUSTAINABILITY aspect of food security. While to to achieve Quantitative food sustainability some concept of inorganic farming such as plantation farming & Mechanisation need to be inculcated to a relatively lesser extent
Proper use of resources inside an organic farming scheme can indeed ensure food security. However it has to become a standard in agriculture, and it is far from being close to that. Too many people still believe what the schools continue to teach, and what large corporations continue to promote (for their own interest), i.e. monoculture with minimal rotations, and an armada of the so gently named "crop protection" tools (all the ...-cides") without any consideration that ecosystems are more resilient and productive than man directed systems. Men still don't know how to create a soil, and yet believe they master agriculture...
It will be a long road....
Yes.the main concept of organic farming is avoid use of the external input such as pesticides ,GMO,growth hormones . There for always helps to food security .
Proper use of resources inside an organic farming scheme can indeed ensure food security. However it has to become a standard in agriculture, and it is far from being close to that. Too many people still believe what the schools continue to teach, and what large corporations continue to promote (for their own interest), i.e. monoculture with minimal rotations, and an armada of the so gently named "crop protection" tools (all the ...-cides") without any consideration that ecosystems are more resilient and productive than man directed systems. Men still don't know how to create a soil, and yet believe they master agriculture...
It will be a long road....
Organic farming is not bad at all. It is possible that organic farming can ensure food security but its very expensive to implement. Most farmers in Africa are smallholders with limited access to improved farm inputs such as organic fertilizer, etc. these farmers are unable to afford these inputs. also, it is not easy to differentiate between organic food and inorganic food in the market. therefore, people will still produce inorganic food and supply them under the pretends of organic food.
People with low income will not be able to afford organic foods. evidence is the case of why most Africans patronize fake products from China. Organic farming with regards to animal production may also be very difficult due to the introduction of exotic breeds which requires some article chemicals to grow well.
The answer is NO. The organic farming is unproductive, it cant reach the high yields needed; needed by farmers to increase income and reduce costs, and needed by mankind to ensure food security.
Organic farming is fad no a solution.
Organic farming is exclude use of synthetic chemical fertilizer and pesticides so as to maintain ecological balance I.e. ideal interaction between biotic and abiotic factors...
India is the second largest populated country after China which is expected to cross 1.3 billion by 2025..... to feed this ever increasing population of India, there is need to supply nutrients in adequate quantities and suitable proportions...
Solely dependence on organic farming may not provide that much remunerative return as it favours number of constraints like...
Availability of organic manure like cow dung, poultry manure, vermicompost etc are very less as preparation of these manure are tough as compared to synthetic industrial manufactured chemicals...
These organic manure especially bulky one has to be applied in a very higher quantity like 5 t/ha, 10 t/ha or more than that as they contain very less amount of primary and secondary nutrients...
Also these nutrients release and supply nutrients very slowly and in very less amount...therefore need time to cover up the gap..means very late response is observed by the crop plants in order to sustain growth and yield...on the other hand application of small amount of synthetic chemicals may results in quick response ....
However there is need to integrate organic amendment with these synthetic chemicals in an ideal proportion so that soil quality may be maintained... I.e. integrated nutrient management...
I would rather to change the question: Conventional agriculture is capable of ensure food security? How it is possible that actually agriculture has achieved the biggest yields per hectare in its history, but there are more than 800 millions of hunger people in the world?
In South America more than 70% that available soil for agriculture is destined for livestock production, 20% for agroindustry and less than 10% for human consumption; this is the origin of food insecurity, it is not a matter of yields but of land use; agriculture has become a business and only those who can afford, have food security.
The use of chemical inputs like fertilizers and pesticides is a highly profitable business and those who produce them are interested in maintain the "idea" that they are necessary to guarantee food security, but those chemicals are poisoning humans and ecosystems and they are not sustainable in the long term.
It is time to rethink the consumption habits especially in developed countries where the demand of meat and other commodities are so high and undeveloped countries destines their best lands to supply that demand, instead of use them to feed their people.
Organic farming products , always help the increase in food quality and human heath. But campare with world population situation ,organic farming products are not eenough for fullfill the human consumption. As well as in organic farming, not use for synthetic input like synthetic fertilizer, growth hormones, pesticide and etc. There fore yield not increase and that yield can't fullfill the human needs . It effect to the food security. Finally , organic farming is help to enhance the human health but not increase food security .
Respected sir,
I know the present scenario of the agriculture is like a foggy atmosphere. People know that there are risks and vulnerability with the present methods and techniques but still they are going forward without knowing and awareness of the shocks and disasters ahead. The chemical farming is like a addiction people know it's harmful but not willing to leave. And the system which is running by the big powers they are getting the benefit from the trade of human health and life through this highly effective but stealth weapon. The concept seeding during the 1960s was so intensive that people think a more application of chamicals will increase the productivity. But it is no such a easy or simple things to increase the productivity. But by applying a huge chamicals we can ensure a drastic reduction in the yield and productivity. Then the question comes what will be the alternative? Is it the organic movement? Actually now in the present scenario the answer is no. The soil conditions of the country now is too much I'll that it cannot achieve the proposed production to feed the entire population. But a slow approach through having a risk storage of grains. The movement toward the organic should be well planed. The reduction of production of first 3years can be calculated and according to that the risk storage can be done. And a slow transformation of 10% land each year can be converted. And the lands which captivating for atleast 3 years in organic approach can rejuvenate and bring a projected and desirable production which can quanch the need of the entire population. And if any one have any doubts about the ability of the organic approach to produce I will like it tell it can produce enough and more than the chamical farming which will be safe, sustainable, healthy and functional. For your reference you can go through the papers mentioned below -
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338701224_EFFECT_OF_ENRICHED_SANJEEVANI_AND_AGNIHOTRA_ON_GROWTH_YIELD_AND_QUALITY_OF_BRINJAL_Solanum_melongena_L?_sg=oKEPBnIPk4vRi__Pc3rdE2OjcgVKp2U-pDNYXrO_QR7g6sSN61qIV9eZycWD4WvBb_kTbeX1bJAIvRlLJTu6sIwoVOFcZGPVg4mbuqSz.jwWGryoaQvh5PjCvAu9pox3vq5agpM5XfeNJMc0pY0ia7ouU24nFFYDKRBlCnkak2olYf5HEH2TrVotEMny1AA
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334748754_An_Experiment_on_Kitchen_Garden_through_Organic_Farming_Approach
Dear Jasim Hassen thanks for your answer. If you explain your answer, than it will be helpful for me.
Till the results have shown that only organic farming will not b able to tackle the problem of food security of country
May not be possible from only organic production if we compare it with commercial production practices.
Пока результаты показали, что только органическое сельское хозяйство не сможет решить проблему продовольственной безопасности страны. Это привилно, но такие растения есть как соя, оно засаленность почву снижает, почву обогошает биологическим азотом и гумусам
The match between organic farming and food security is very difficult. But, if systematic approach could be taken over a long period of time food security is possible to certain extent.
I fully agree with @Arvind Singh that organic farming can't feed the world.
It is difficult for me to understand your answer Mr. Kushmetov Zufarbek.
Yes off course. With all care and proper management, it is possible
The current importance of ecological agriculture stems from the following advantages of this cultivation system: less contaminated air, water and agricultural food products; safe working conditions for farmers; biodiversity; fertile and healthy soul; reduction of the loss of nutrients due to leaching; reduction in soil erosion; efficient use of water resources; nutrient quality of ecological products; environmental protection; less extensive use of non-renewable resources; reduction of risks for farmers; protection of the future generations; and economic advantages.
Ecological agriculture has been constantly developing in recent years across all the continents but organic farming cannot feed the world.
Organic farming may not insure you that much food whhich is going waste daily in many restaurants and kitchens, but it will definately insure you your good health and elongate your life.....
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