What is Organic Farming? | Agriculture | Biology | FuseSchool
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- What is Organic Farming? | Agriculture | Biology | FuseSchool
As populations have grown, farming practices have become more intensified to maximise crop yields and ensure we can feed the ever growing population. Fertilisers and pesticides are used on crops, and animals may be kept inside in more densely packed sheds to maximise milk yields, or egg production, or speed up the time needed for the animal to be ready to be sent to market for meat.
An alternative to conventional farming is organic farming.
Organic farming currently accounts for about 1% of agricultural land worldwide. It focuses on sustainability and is thought to have less detrimental effects on the environment than conventional farming. This has led to it being proposed as an alternative to conventional agriculture for helping to overcome the climate change crisis we are currently experiencing. The debate continues, as it is not a perfect solution.
In theory, organic farming should not use chemical fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides or feed additives for livestock. It requires the farmer to use more natural alternatives. This results in lower yields, but the farmer can sell their produce at a higher price because consumers believe the produce is of a higher quality.
Instead of fertilisers, manure is used. This recycles waste and improves the soil structure. However, it is smelly and more difficult to apply than chemical fertilisers, and also means the farmer has less control over the mineral content they are putting into their soils.
Crop rotation is used to reduce disease building up in the soils and to strengthen the soil composition. Certain crops, such as the legume family - so peas and beans, fix nitrogen from the air and increase the nitrates in the soil. This makes the soil much more fertile, and so farmers rotate legumes with their other crops. Growing multiple crops is however less efficient and produces lower yields than specialising in one or few crops however.
Instead of using herbicides, weeding is the preferred organic farming technique. This is of course much more environmentally friendly because it is chemical free but it is very labour intensive. Although this does mean more jobs available, which is a great thing.
Organic farming is thought to maintain the biodiversity better than conventional farming because fewer chemicals are used. There are more bumble bees and insects in an area because pesticides haven’t been used. Weeds and non-crop plants can grow as herbicides aren’t used. Biodiversity benefits the food chain across all levels, from the plants up to the foxes.
These are the theories of organic farming, and is how we farmed for the one hundred thousand years before the industrial revolution. It is generally thought that organic farming is much better for biodiversity, and also produces a healthier product because less chemicals are used on it.
In the second video on organic farming, we will look at some of the problems of organic farming, and the reality of what it means to be an organic farm.
Part 2: • The Pros and Cons of O...
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who here came just for their homework?
Me
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Being a safety scientist, I realised quite early that the major cause of most diseases and disorders is none other than chemicals.
That is why I am starting a 100% natural organic farming project in India.
Everybody please help with your suggestions and experiences.
Suggestion number 1..do not listen to this propaganda video. Research permaculture, polyculture and other QUALITY organic farming videos, not this one.
@@diasporareturnee Can you elaborate more on why this video is wrong? Any scientific evidence?
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This is future of agriculture.
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Some students from telugana university was came and talk about organic farming clearly .It was so interesting .My school name is amrita vidyalayam (haripad) My name is Nandana aniyan .
I am studying in sixth standard....
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We at unit 6 and doing my work thxs for the help :)
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This video is more helpfull and I need the economic importance of organic farming with this
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This is information-packed and perfectly paced educational magic! It is amazing how many organic farming topics are covered in less than 4 minutes!
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A very good video for students
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Aguante la provi mostro! hola muchahchos, ojala que si algun cumpa ve este comentaria me responda, good luck with your homework
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Thnx a lot .i found such nice things from your video.i am a student sri lanka.human must look on this organic farming.without using any chemicals or fertilizers.also i can have a best practice for my term test from this video thnks again.REGARDS
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New kind of farming. Organic farm produce. Production. Farming industry.
One of the most difficult questions of our time.
Chemical agriculture produces much more food than organic farming, but eventually destroys the land and biodiversity.
If the whole world were to turn to organic farming, we would produce around 50% of the food we do today with our current extensive use of chemicals and monoculture farming.
So here are 2 questions. See if you can answer them.
1, What will be the eventual result of poisoning our farmland with chemicals ?
2. If we turned completely to organic farming, what would you do about the four thousand million people that we cannot feed any more ?
One of the most difficult questions of our time.
Good two questions Mark. I have an upcoming webinar on Organic Agriculture - which is on JADAM Ultra Low Cost Farming Technology. You can register and see the flyer through this google form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd59IQyZN7Ti5y0mKPg4UaVIkRVIfe1Z1B0RIfZmOAh8KSJNg/viewform?usp=pp_url
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This is use for 6th class project in online class
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Global Perspective is meh homework
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It is not for masses, because the product is too expensive
Informative, thank you
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please make a video about green concept. please. if u post this video i will subscribe for this channel.
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Low yields!!!, what are you talking about, producing crops organically or should i say getting the biodiversity and life back in to the soil creates bigger yields, better tasting and more nutrient containing food. You need to study up on Soil microbiology and the process of the soil food web.
It gives lower yields because organic farming has no proper defense against pests and pathogens. It has nothing to do with the soil quality and everything to do with the fact your soil can be the most fertile in the world but your yields are gonna be lower if you have no defense against bugs and disease.
Nice video
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There are three types of farming 1.)chemical.2.)organic. 3.)natural former two are invented by Western money minded buisiness people to loot farmers in either ways,on other hand farming which was practiced traditionally did not require any external fertilisers,no pesticides cause the soil( mother nature) was healthy and chemical free,no compost,no soil enrichers,no added micro nutrients ,so basically nothing purchasing from the market,so selfish people came up with chemical farming and now as people are realising harms of chemicals the same people have invented a new term as organic farming to keep the game on,and keep looting the farmers.Farming by laws of nature ,without polluting the soil,by gowing intercrops and friendly bugs and insects to keep pests under control,with zero inputs and growing outputs is possible to learn more about this search for videos of Mr subhash palekar on CZcams if u encounter language problem and u want written data contact me on 9869640573.
Good video
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Less people might be an idea. There's too many...
No we need to grow our own food and not depend on someone else growing poisons for us to eat so we can be sent to their doctors for their drugs. You know they call themselves the FDA and AMA.
Bad idea. No human or group of humans should have the right to decide another group or groups of humans must die.
Nope i agree with the idea of less people.
@@ecogenie please tell them again Tom , Thank you !
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I need animation for nitrogen fixation could u send a footage to me 🙏🙏🙏
We don't have it specifically, but we have a video about nitrogen cycle: czcams.com/video/vZ9b5c8BOT4/video.html
Please make a video about veganism, if we stop using human consumable foods for energy and farm animals we would have plenty of food. It would be humanity achiving world wide fed population! Regards, and thanks a lot for making the videos!
Been talking to a farmer tonight who says that cattle feed is largely made of stuff people can't/don't eat. And in the UK they get most of their food off grass which humans can't digest.
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Where is the 2nd part?
Part 2: czcams.com/video/QpkKW45cHaA/video.html
@@fuseschool Thank you🙏
It’ll be helpful if you can include the link in the description of part 1.
Done 😉
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I like this video, but that is not true that organic farming is expensive and yields less. Organic isn't expensive! Watch this on CZcams: Why Is Organic Food So *#@! Expensive?
excellent explanation
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I tolerated the 2 billion population comment but stopped watching at "[Organic fertilsers are] smelly and more difficult to apply." Pure propaganda video this.
Quick Watch Video of Organic Farming -
czcams.com/video/zYZnoYObOe8/video.html
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'more Biodiversity' i don't want that in my Farm. Its oKaY in jungle/forest.
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Do you know if eating organic veges raw'll get me contaminated with the shit that the vege was standing on top of?
If you know & the answer's no, why?
No it won't. Before we start, both organic and non-organic farmers use slurry (animal manure and urine) to spread on their crops; it's not just an organic farming solution.
It is a fertiliser, which returns nutrients to the ground - rather than the slurry going to landfill and valuable nutrients lost.
Don't think of the plants taking up manure as the brown liquid/solid that the animal excretes. The slurry is broken down into it's individual components, and the crops just take up the nutrients that they need from it, such as Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium.
Does that help?
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