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ORGANIC FOOD VS CONVENTIONAL FOOD

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ORGANIC FOOD vs CONVENTIONAL FOOD source -  https://www.thediabetescouncil.com/organic-foods-vs-regular-conventional-food-what-is-the-difference/ ORGANIC FOOD ?                                                                                                                            These are the agricultural products which are grown without use of fertilizers, growth regulators, livestock feeds, pesticides. Main concept of organic food is to grow food without the use of synthetic materials or genetically modified crops.  CONVENTIONAL FOOD? Conventional food are made using pesticides and chemical herbicides. in this farmers utilize chemical fertilizers ...

organic farming scenario in india

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In this Era of development, we had seen numerous advancements in every sector, but the idea of "going back to roots " is observed in farming industry . as due to growing health concerns of people from techniques of modern farming that has increased the productivity of crops to high extent that is important for feeding our large population. organic industry is the new trend that people wants to adopt for a healthy and disease resistant life.the fear of being trapped in any of diseases caused by harmful chemicals and continuous promotions of organic means healthy is making people believe in this trend.  According to the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), the demand for Indian organic food products is on the constant increase worldwide as India  exported organic products worth $515 million in the financial year 2017-18, from $370 million in 2016-17. This trend is expected to increase in upcoming times.  The Rise in Demand...

Limitations or restraints in adoption to organic from traditional food, both in terms of farming, consumption and commercialization

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Sources: https://www.greenandgrowing.org/organic-farming-sustainable/ Major Problems and Constraints for Organic Farming Lack of Awareness : The inability of government policymakers to take a firm decision to promote organic farming. But people are less aware of organic farming and food. Lack of knowledge and availability are the major problem in the adaptation of Organic farming and food. The adaptation of organic food is one of the fastest-growing in the markets. But the household purchases of organic food do not reach the people because people are not aware of the benefits of organic food. Lack of visibility affects consumer awareness of organic food. New research suggested countries like the US & European nations adopted organic farming products at the fastest level. Developing a nation’s growth rate of organic farming as low as compared to the developed nation because of knowledge educations limited agricultural school's college farming institutions. Governmen...

The Shift to Organic Food and Organic Farming.

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As soon as humanity started growing food for consumption, and started storing it for future usage, the global food scenario begun on a path, on which we have come a long way. Initially, the food used to be grown for personal usage, later the food became an integral part of exchange system or barter system, where food stuff were used to be exchanged, in return for several other commodities. https://www.euractiv.com/ With time, as the human population grew, the need to commercialize food became more important than ever, and as the concept of markets came, it wasn't feasible for everyone to grow food for themselves, so to make food available to them, commercialization of food was necessary. When the overall human population, along with the count of individuals, who couldn't produce their own food grew, the stress was always there on productivity. To solve this problem, scientists came up with pesticides and fertilizers, which revolutionized the farming techniques overn...

An Introduction to Organic Food

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INTRODUCTION Organic production is a general arrangement of farming and producing food that focuses on maintainable horticulture, top notch items and the utilization of procedures that don't hurt neither the earth, nor human, plant or animal wellbeing and government assistance. Source: Organic Food Festival for Women ... krishijagran.com Buyers are on edge about nourishment quality, creation methods and provenance and they trust organic food quite easily. The nourishment related dynamic procedure is unpredictable and is affected by numerous determinants: Financial : cost, pay, and accessibility; Physical : openness, training, and aptitudes; Social : culture, family, and supper designs; Mental : state of mind, stress, and blame; Individual : perspectives, convictions, and information about nourishment. An open discussion on organic farming featured the open's interests with ecological and quality issues, and demonstrated an unmistakable interes...

Organic Farming

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Source  :-     www.nationalgeographic.com What is organic farming ?      Organic farming is the act of avoiding synthetic chemical fertilizer in the agricultural field, in order to avoid the deterioration of soil fertility as well the soil productive capacity and application of organic manure and bio fertilizers to enhance the crop's growth quality and soil health.                                                                                            Source:- www.franchiseindia.com  Why organic farming ?          Green revolution (1965) marked the way for the growth of agriculture sector in India in order to meet the national food security by introduction of syn...