The Potential of Organic farming in India is very huge because of its immense bio-diversity and natural resources. Organic farming is a integrated farming system that strives for sustainability, the helps improve soil fertility and biological diversity whilst, with rare expectations, prohibiting synthetic pesticides, antibiotics, synthetic fertilizers, growth hormones and genetically modified organisms.
Organic food is environmentally friendly because organic farming strives to enhance environmental conditions and conserve earth resources. Many organic farms grow an assorted range of food material, taking natural elements and time tested tradition facts into account organic food means you won't be consuming the standard 'cocktail' of chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers found in conventional farm produce.
Technological development of the farmers is the key element to improve production and quality parameters. His emphasis is on adoption of multiple cropping patterns, trap crop, crop on the periphery, record management, documentation, and stock maintenance assisting the farmers in certification and market access.
Land is weakening and withering, the changing nature of soil is getting worse, levels of organic carbon needs to come up in the soil all this has resulted in dropping of food production, and soils will be incapable to produce the expected production. Dr Bhore has experienced these situations and is working on the issues and is providing cost effective solutions to the farmers. Initiatives and capacity building are very important at the field level.
Farmers must use the required organic fertilizers [organic manures & compost], bio fertilizers, bio pesticides which has gone up and must supply and maintain cycles for macro and micro nutrients in the balanced form. Now the production is expected to come up from the same land.
The productivity of organic farming may be less in the initial years but the yields increases progressively over a period of time, repeated efforts are expected. The organic production system strives for minimal distribution of the natural equilibrium while ensuring the production of high quality food.
Farmers, organic farms must grow and produce assorted products, food of high nutritional quality and in sufficient quantities.
Consumers plan to purchase organic foods directly from growers, from whom they would like to develop first-hand knowledge and awareness about organic food.
Major supermarkets have massively increased their organic ranges in the last few years in response to public demand. Higher prices and profits may also be a factor.
Marketing process can be encouraged by paving a way through mobile marketing, establishing green health shop, organic food specialty shops and organic bazaars providing the produce year round, cooking demonstration must be organized to create awareness all this must be happen in the location which should be in the close proximity to commercial or office areas.
Organic produce need to meet acceptable quality standards, price and must specify product benefits, certified organic products have to compete with self claim for hygiene, safe product
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