Organic Framing

Objectives of Organic Farming (as per IFOAM)

Objectives of Organic Farming as Suggested by IFOAM

• To produce food of high nutritional quality in sufficient quantity.
• To work with natural system rather than seeking to dominate them.
• To encourage and enhance biological cycles within farming system-involving microorganisms, soil flora and fauna, plants and animals.
• To maintain and increase long term fertility of soil.
• To use, as far as possible, the renewable resources. To work as much as possible, within a closed system, wit regard to organic matter and nutrient elements.
• To give all livestocks, conditions of life that allow them to perform all aspects of their innate behavior.
• To avoid all forms of pollution that may result from agricultural techniques.
• To maintain the genetic diversity of agricultural system and its surroundings, including the plants and wild life habitats.
• To allow agricultural producers an adequate returns and satisfaction from their work including safe drinking water.