How Can Organic Practices Help The Environment?
The overall goal of organic growing methods is to work with the environment and not against it. All methods aim to create sustainable systems that support natural activities and tend not change the environment. Farmers working in organic systems aim to retain and preserve soil quality, use integrated pest management systems that look at natural methods of controlling pests and diseases and they rely on natural fertilizers, such as animal and green manures and rock salts etc. Organic growers make use of such techniques as rotations; inter planting with other crops, as well as, companion planting methods to assist in pest control and to increase the fertility of the soil. There are a number of different organic growing systems available, which make use of different techniques and practices and these are often referred to under the names of organic, bio-dynamic or permaculture methods. Organic growing practices can help the environment by reducing the amount of chemicals that find their w
