Tag: Fertilizer
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Organic Farmer Role Model for Educated Indian Youth – Many From Corporate World
A reader, who is also interested in the organic food movement, shared a link to the following article. It is so encouraging to hear about educated young people taking up organic farming instead of heading off to corporate jobs. Many youngsters are pouring into Pakkam, a village in Thiruvallur district, about 35 km from Chennai…
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Islamabad Women’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IWCCI) Promotes Organic Farming
I’ve really come to admire the women of India and Pakistan. Contrary to Western stereotypes, many Indian and Pakistani women are engaged and active in all spheres of society and are fighting for better standards of living for themselves and their communities. In this Business Recorder article, Parvez Jabri spotlights the push toward organic farming…
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Indian Farmers Learn From Past Mistakes
Tan Cheng Li writes about a growing number of farmers in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu who are returning to the old way of chemical-free cultivation of crops: YONG Weng Thing was amazed when he saw the field of spinach. Being a farmer himself, he knows good quality stuff when he sees it and…
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Organic cultivation: learning from the Enabavi example
By: M. J. Prabu Reposted from The Hindu: Is it possible to get a good yield without using chemical fertilizers? Will a shift to organic affect our food security? Can we manage insect pests without using pesticides? Will organic cultivation still be profitable for farmers? These are some of the often asked questions by farmers…
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Organic Agriculture – Best Way to Reduce Dead Zones
Karen Adler at the Organic Farming Research Foundation reports on how organic agricultural practices can reduce dead zones that are increasing around the world: Did you hear that the area in the Gulf of Mexico known as the dead zone is soon expected to reach the size of New Jersey? Due to heavy spring flooding in the Midwest,…
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Bali seeks to improve energy self-sufficiency
From the Jakarta Post, Bali seeks to accelerate its energy and agriculture self-sufficiency programs: In line with its mission to be a “clean and green” and “organic” island, Bali should accelerate its energy and agriculture self-sufficiency programs, an NGO has urged. I Gede Suarja, coordinator of the BIRU program with the Yayasan Rumah Energi (YRE)…
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One More Reason to Eat Organic: We’re running out of fertilizer
AUTHOR: JULIE M. RODRIGUEZ One of the most frustrating aspects of the organic food “debate” is the fact that the conversation seems to be stuck debating whether organic food is more nutritionally dense than conventionally-grown food. So when studies come out showing that you won’t get more vitamins from eating organic, conventional growers use that to bash organic…
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