As a matter of fact, all living or dead things are made up of chemical compounds. Therefore, organic farming does use chemicals, though naturally derived, in plant protection, fertilizing and livestock husbandry.
It is a system which tries to avoid the routine use of chemicals and to exploit natural renewable resources.
The principles of organic farming are:
- work with natural systems rather than trying to dominate them;
- to encourage and enhance biological cycles within the farming system involving microorganisms, soil flora and fauna, plants and animals;
- to maintain and increase the long term fertility of soils:
- to use, as far as possible, renewable resources;
- to give all livestock conditions of life that allow them to perform all aspects of their innate behaviour;
- to avoid all forms of pollutions;
- to maintain the generic diversity of the agricultural system.
It is the duty of humanity to fix the mess we've made and everyone have to do it in its own sector, beginning with agriculture.
(Thanks to Lorenzo S. for helping me writing this post)
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