Organic Framing

Characteristics of Organic Farming

 

• Maximum but sustainable use of resources.
• Minimal use of purchased inputs, only as complementary to local resources.
• Ensuring the basic biological functions of soil-water-nutrients-human continuum.
• Maintaining the diversity of plant and animal species as a basis for ecological balance and economic stability.
• Creating an alternative overall landscape which give satisfaction to the local people.
• Increasing crop and animal diversity in the form of polycultures, agroforestry systems, integrated crop-livestock systems etc.., to minimize the risk.

Fig. Constraint to the Organic Farming Decision