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Food health
Food health
or consider that nature needs to add nutrients to the soil Organic Farming Practices
rest too. Everything wears out Sewage sludge as fertilizer For Farm Animals
at some point if proper rest and Most synthetic pesticides for (Livestock) Include:
maintenance are not given. pest control • Healthy living conditions
Using radiation (irradiation) to and access to the outdoors
Let’s save nature from too preserve food or to get rid of • Pasture feeding for at least
much pressure. disease or pests 30% of farm animals’
Using genetic technology to nutritional needs during
What Is Organic Farming? change the genetic makeup grazing season
(genetic engineering) of crops, • Organic food for animals
The word “organic” means which can improve disease or
the way farmers grow and pest resistance, or to improve We appreciate every of our
process farming (agricultural) crop harvests African organic farmers,
products. These products Antibiotics or growth especially the ones doing
include fruits, vegetables, hormones for farm animals indigenous organic farming.
grains, dairy products such as (livestock) You have become our heroes in
milk and cheese, and meat. the fight against GMOs and the
So it’s not a type of crop but a Organic crop farming health consequences of agro-
type of farming technique that materials or practices may chemicals.
is pro-life, pro-health, pro- include:
environmental sustainability • Plant waste left on fields Watch the VIDEO here:
etc. (green manure), farm
animals’ manure or ORGANIC FACT
Organic Farming Practices compost to improve soil The only way we can take out
Are Designed To Meet The quality GMO foods from the market is
Following Goals: • Plant rotation to keep soil to support and keep supporting
Improve soil and water quality quality and to stop cycles of organic farmers, especially the
Cut Pollution pests or disease ones doing indigenous organic
Provide safe, healthy places for • Cover crops that prevent crops. It’s very straightforward.
farm animals (livestock) to live the wearing away of soil It’s not rocket science that
Enable natural farm animals’ (erosion) when sections of the one sure way to get more
behaviour land aren’t in use and to indigenous organic crops both
Promote a self-sustaining cycle plough into soil to improve now and, in the future, is to eat
of resources on a farm etc soil quality more indigenous organic crops
• Mulch to control weeds
Materials Or Methods Not • Insects or insect traps to now. It’s just basic common
Allowed In Organic Farming control pests sense. If you want more fruits,
Include: • Certain natural pesticides then produce more seeds by
Artificial (synthetic) fertilizers eating more fruits. And this
principle cuts across all our food
systems.
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