01 Dec 2020

ORGANIC FOOD
History of organic food
The concepts of organic agriculture were developed in
the early 1900s by Sir Albert Howard, F.H. King, Rudolf
In this blog: Steiner, and others who believed that the use of
• History of animal manures (often made into compost), cover
organic crops, crop rotation, and biologically based pest
farming controls resulted in a better farming system. Howard,
• The different having worked in India as an agricultural researcher,
types of gained much inspiration from the traditional and
organic sustainable farming practices he encountered there
farming
and advocated for their adoption in the West. Such
• Integrated practices were further promoted by various
organic advocates—such as J.I. Rodale and his son Robert, in
farming the 1940s and onward, who published Organic
• Pure organic Gardening and Farming magazine and a number of
farming texts on organic farming. The demand for organic food
was stimulated in the 1960s by the publication
of Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, which documented
the extent of environmental damage caused
by insecticides.

The diff types of organic farming :-

1. Integrated Organic
Farming : Integrated or-
ganic farming is a commonly
and broadly used word to ex-
plain a more integrated ap-
proach to farming as compared
to existing monoculture ap-
proaches. It refers to agricultur-
al systems that integrate live-
stock and crop production and
may sometimes be known as
Integrated Bio systems. It de-
notes a holistic system of farm-
ing which optimizes productivi-
ty in a sustainable manner
through creation of interde-
pendent agri-eco systems where annual crop plants (e.g.
wheat), perennial trees (e.g. horticulture) and animals
(including fishes where relevant) are integrated on a given
field or property .

2. pure organic farming : Pure organic farming

means avoiding all unnatural chemicals. In this process of
farming, all the fertilizer and pesticide are obtained from nat-
ural sources such as bone meal or blood meal. . It also in-
volves the use of organic manures and biopesticides with
complete avoidance of inorganic chemicals and pesticides.