Organic Farming

Organic manure in highland

Organic farming is a farming system using some organic inputs of production and integrated management among all agriculture resources. Organic inputs consist of fertilizers, pesticides, and seeds that are free from chemicals. The fertilizers must be made of organic matters, such as manure, leaves, waste of harvested plants or rotted food. To avoid pests and diseases, farmers would better manufacture those matters to be compost so they can be ready to use. In addition, they have to use organic matters to produce pesticides. They can compose it from poisonous and/or bitter parts of plant, for example leaf or fruit, and add some water with or without other fermenting materials. For the last input, farmers usually use local seeds that have good adaptation to the farm environment and suitable with organic fertilizers and pesticides. Then to implement integrated management in organic farming, farmers have to combine the inputs of production with the conserved land tillage and water management. The best practice of land tillage is a zero-tillage that can reserve land fertility and minimize water needs. Furthermore, farmers manage to water the land so that the water don’t include any chemical materials and it’s efficiently lower the cost. As a conclusion, organic farming is highly recommended to produce high quality and healthy farm products, and keep a sustainable farm environment.

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