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A Handbook of Organic Farming
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ABOUT THE BOOK: The word 'Organic' means origin from a living thing and farming with the philosophy of Organic is to make production system alive with long life. It is not just to replace fertilizers and pesticide with manure and predators but it is an ongoing dynamic process for making healthy soil, and ultimately a vital living system of the world.
Organic farming is similar to the other sustainable farming systems e.g., permaculture, eco-farming etc., which are based on harmony with nature or near to nature approach. The only distinguishing character is the certification of production in organic farming. Certification is a procedure in which certain rules and regulation have to be followed. This is necessary to obtain certificate from recognized agency. This agency certify that the product is produced strictly with organic methods.
In this handbook almost all the aspects related organic farming are covered with a balanced approach. The author demonstrates the newness of the organic concept for readers. This will help the readers to discover easily the philosophical and technical differences between organic and conventional (synthetic input dependent) farming systems.
Chapter 1 deals with the need and progress towards sustainable farming systems. In chapter 2 covers various rules and regulation related to soil and crop management for a standard organic farming. Chapter 3 gives basic information about soil environment in relation to plant growth. Various basic and applied aspects of input and crop health management are discussed in chapters 4 to 13. The author raised several issues and concerns, specially on adoption, marketing and research in organic farming in chapters 14 to 16.
Considering the fast development in technology and marketing in organic farming, detailed list of electronic sources of information is included in the end. References are not given in the text because the readers should feel that he or she has learned the subject at some depth depending upon the level of the writing. If references are allowed, then the tendency of the writing will be to keep telling the reader more about where the subject matter is available rather than presenting the same reasonably well on the spot. Such style makes the writing directive rather then instructive.
After reading the handbook, hopefully the readers will have a balanced view about organic farming and will get answers of most of the quarries with updated knowledge.
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