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"Organic farming can be defined as an approach to agriculture where
the aim is to create integrated, humane, environmentally and economically
sustainable agricultural production systems".
"Organic agriculture is an ecological production management system
that promotes and enhances biodiversity, biological cycles and soil biological
activity. It is based on minimal use of off-farm inputs and on management
practices that restore, maintain and enhance ecological harmony".
"The principal guidelines for organic production are to use materials
and practices that enhance the ecological balance of natural systems and that
integrate the parts of the farming system into an ecological whole".
"The key characteristics of organic farming include:
- protecting the long term fertility of soils by maintaining organic
matter levels, encouraging soil biological activity, and careful mechanical
intervention;
- providing crop nutrients indirectly using relatively insoluble
nutrient sources which are made available to the plant by the action of soil
micro-organisms;
- nitrogen self-sufficiency through the use of legumes and biological
nitrogen fixation, as well as effective recycling of organic materials
including crop residues and livestock manures;
- weed, disease and pest control relying primarily on crop rotations,
natural predators, diversity, organic manuring, resistant varieties and limited
(preferably minimal) thermal, biological and chemical intervention;
- the extensive management of livestock, paying full regard to their
evolutionary adaptations, behavioural needs and animal welfare issues with
respect to nutrition, housing, health, breeding and rearing;
- careful attention to the impact of the farming system on the wider
environment and the conservation of wildlife and natural habitats".
"Organic food is, in general, food produced without the use of
artificial pestices, synthetic fertilizer and in many definitions genetically
modified organisms (GMOs). Farms that grow organically, do so in a sustainable,
environmentally sound, manner, and very often, are small family-run farms".
"Organic production systems are designed to produce optimum quantities
of food of high nutritional quality by using practises that try to avoid the
use of agrochemical inputs and which minimise damage to the environment and
wildlife. This means that many things such as weeding need to be done manually.
Animal welfare is a top priority for organic farmers - prevention of disease
rather than cure is their major concern. Healthy animals are less susceptible
to disease and organically farmed animals do not receive routine antibiotics or
growth promoters."
"Organic foods are now widely available. Organic food sales have
enjoyed sustantial growth in the past few. This large growth is predicted to
continue".
"Organic produce handlers, processors and retailers adhere to
standards that maintain the integrity of organic products".
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