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What is organic farming?
Organic farming can be defined as an approach to agriculture where the aim is to
create integrated, humane, environmentally and economically sustainable
agricultural production systems. Maximum reliance is placed on locally or
farm-derived renewable resources and the management of self-regulating
ecological and biological processes and interactions in order to provide
acceptable levels of crop, livestock and human nutrition, protection from pests
and diseases, and an appropriate return to the human and other resources
employed. Reliance on external inputs, whether chemical or organic, is reduced
as far as possible. In many European countries, organic agriculture is known as
ecological agriculture, reflecting this reliance on ecosystem management rather
than external inputs. |
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