Organic Farming, benefits and scope

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Organic Farming, benefits and scope
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• ORGANIC FARMING
• Organic farming is the process of producing food
  naturally. This method avoids the use of
  synthetic chemical fertilizers and genetically
  modified organisms to influence the growth of
  crops
• Organic farming is the form of agriculture that
  relies on techniques such as crop rotation, green
  manure, compost, and biological pest

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Principles of Organic Farming

• There are 4 main principles of Organic Farming
• Organic agriculture is based on
• The principle of health
• The principle of ecology
• The principle of fairness
• The principle of care

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Organic matter status of Pakistan soils

• In Pakistan, the soils are very poor in organic
  matter than the desirable level. A soil having
  1.29 C is considered to be sufficient in
  organic matte

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Pakistan and organic farming

• More than 90 farmer practice conventional
  farming by using
• Synthetic Fertilizer
• Pesticide
• Weedicide
• Intensive tillage

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Pakistan Organic Agriculture Scenario

• In 2005-2006 total area under organic agriculture
  was 35000 acres which increased to 150000 acres
  (approx.) by 2009-2010.

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Steps To be Taken For organic farming

• Government Policies
• Special supply chain
• Marketing facilities
• Individual Farmer willing
• Base from small area
• Awareness about organic food
• Quality base price

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Benefits of organic farming

• Improvement of soil biological activity.
• Improvement of physical characteristics of soil.
• Reducing nitrate leaching.
• Increasing and improving wild life habitant.
• Healthy food
• Eco friendly
• Minimum soil degradation
• Micro organisms are safe
• Organic food is more nutrious
• Soil conservation

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Constrains in organic farming

• Government price policies causing low
  agricultural income
• Organic agriculture requires time and well
  trained extension workers
• market development are government fair and the
  sole of major super markets
• Major problem is lack of public awareness of
  organic food

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Constrains in organic farming in Pakistan

• Development of viable producer and consumer
  linkages
• Organic farms spent more on labour .
• Agronomic crops are high fertilizer responsive is
  also a problem
• Farmer perception ,it is not more economical.
• We can not sudden convince farmer about organic
  farming.

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Aim for organic farming

• A sufficiently high level of productivity,
• compatibility of cultivation with the
• natural cycles of the production system
• maintaining and increasing the longterm
• fertility of soil.
• maximum possible use of renewable
• resources,

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Scope of organic farming

• Scope for bio fertilizer companies
• Biopesticide and other allied agencies
• Women in Pakistan agriculture, can perform the
  following functions as good as men
• Transplanting of vegetables, rice, and bare root
  plants.
• Intercultivation of vegetable of removal of weeds
  and unwanted growth. 

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Scope of organic farming in Pakistan

• Picking of cotton, small fruits, vegetables,
  berries of all types, harvesting of wheat, rice
  and other crops.
• They however excel men in all those operations
  which require squatting to carryout operations
  near the ground and keep moving simultaneously
• Farmer can get high prices

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Organic farming In Pakistan

• In our univeristy is also work on organic
  farming
• In Hafiz Abad Kot mubarak(kernal mill)
• kitchen Gardening
• Roshni foods
• Hanza foods
• Taj foods

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